by sahcadmin | Mar 27, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
In February 2024, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy purchased 188 acres along a long ridge west of North Turkey Creek, permanently preserving forested mountain slopes, streams, and scenic views in the Sandy Mush community. Four headwater streams originate on...
by sahcadmin | Mar 27, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Sandy Mush Creek Conservation Easement When Simmons Covington Lettre and her brother Archer Covington inherited the mountain land their father once loved and enjoyed, they decided to follow through on his wishes to permanently protect 136 acres of the property with a...
by sahcadmin | Mar 26, 2024 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Wells-Young Homeplace Conservation Easement The Wells/Young Homeplace on Willow Creek Road has served as home to generations of the Wells family in the Big Sandy Mush community. The John W. Wells farmhouse, built in the early 1840s for John and his second wife, Rachel...
by sahcadmin | Feb 27, 2024 | Appalachian Trail Countryside, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Union Church Cove Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy continues to work with partners in the U.S. Forest Service to fill in gaps in our public lands. This month, SAHC purchased 65 acres just south of Johnson City and Jonesborogh. The tract shares a long border...
by sahcadmin | Feb 27, 2024 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Full Sun Farm — the name says it all. A quintessential small mountain farm on sun drenched bottomland in the Sandy Mush Creek valley, Full Sun Farm possesses fertile soils sprouting healthy produce and lush, colorful flowers. This is the kind of place where you want...
by sahcadmin | Jan 19, 2024 | Black Mountains, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
South McDaris Ridge The rocky face of South McDaris Ridge stands as a sentinel above the upper reaches of Reems Creek valley, just across from the Woodfin Watershed conservation easement. In December 2023, the owners of this significant spur ridgeline in the Great...
