by sahcadmin | May 24, 2011 | Black Mountains, Corporate Partners, Stewardship Stories, Volunteer Stories
During the first week of May, staff from Navitat Canopy Adventures in Asheville volunteered with SAHC to install water bars on trails on a conservation easement. The property, a 231-acre conservation easement protected by SAHC, is located within the Craggy Mountains...
by sahcadmin | Apr 21, 2011 | Corporate Partners, Stewardship Stories, Volunteer Stories
The beautiful mountain streams and rivers of western NC and east TN are plagued with an illness brought on by humans – trash. Each year, river clean-up crews and conservation organizations spend countless hours to remove thousands of pounds of tires, old...
by sahcadmin | Feb 4, 2011 | Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Stewardship Stories
The Virginia big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii) is an endangered bat that only lives in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Virginia big-eared bats prefer caves in karst regions (areas underlain with limestone bedrock and many caves and sinkholes)...