Bikes, Water & Conservation
A group of young bikers engage in community, conversation and reflection along the Neuse River If you can say you’ve biked 700 miles in 14 days, you’re in a pretty elite group. Last summer, 14 young adults accomplished that extraordinary feat as part of Triangle BikeWorks’ Spoke’n Revolutions “Bikes, Water & Soul” tour. Following the path of…
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Eat your veggies!
Conservation Corps North Carolina members assist a community garden; help build unity in Durham. Typically, teams working with Conservation Corps North Carolina spend a lot of time building and improving hiking trails and outdoor recreation spaces in rustic locales. But this assignment was community-based as the crew worked to benefit an urban farm in the…
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229-acre Thunder Hill Overlook Property Conserved
UPDATE: In 2022, CTNC donated the Thunder Hill Overlook property to the National Park Service. This donation allows for the expansion of the Blue Ridge Parkway boundary and will be held in conservation protection in perpetuity. Conserved land will protect the headwaters that provide drinking water for nearly 1 million North Carolinians downstream of the…
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A Story of Community Resilience
This article originally appeared in Saving Land Magazine. During the summer, staff of the accredited Conservation Trust for North Carolina visited the small town of Princeville that has been repeatedly devastated by floodwaters. In 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused the Tar River to rise and the town was submerged. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew brought heavy flooding…
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Saddle Mountain Projects Expand State Game Lands
UPDATE: In 2022, CTNC donated the Saddle Mountain Meadow acquisition to the National Park Service. This donation allows for the expansion of the Blue Ridge Parkway boundary and will be held in conservation protection in perpetuity. Conservation Trust for North Carolina purchased a 24-acre tract adjoining North Carolina’s Mitchell River Game Lands and the Blue…
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Building Community, One Board at a Time
Conservation Corps North Carolina serves the public through a trail restoration project with Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association Hammer? Check. Nails? Check. A hardworking crew? Conservation Corps has that, too. This July, a team of six Conservation Corps crew members and two team leaders worked with the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association (ECWA) to complete a much-needed…
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Welcome, AmeriCorps Members! ???
CTNC is thrilled to introduce the AmeriCorps cohort for 2019! From the mountains to the coast, these selfless young people are educating others and protecting the environment for generations to come. We’re wishing this cohort of environmental stewards a fantastic service term! Hannah Barg hails from the great lakes region of Illinois and earned her…
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Conserving Whole Communities
CTNC partners with local leaders and nonprofits to create positive change in Princeville In 1885, a group of formerly enslaved African-Americans claimed a portion of land in Edgecombe County as their own. It was a somewhat swampy space next to the Tar River that had been largely ignored by their white neighbors. They were a…
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A New Vision for Conservation
Our land is facing new threats. It’s time to offer new solutions. From the Blue Ridge Parkway to the eastern coast of our amazing state, the Conservation Trust is working alongside communities to conserve land in ways that build resilient, just communities throughout North Carolina. We are committed to finding land-saving solutions that benefit all…
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An Equitable Vision for Conservation
CTNC strives to seed equity and inclusion throughout the conservation community We’re born on the land. Eat food grown in it. Drink water that flows over it. Build our communities within its hills, valleys, plains and rivers. There’s not a single aspect of our lives that’s not touched by land. While land connects us all, it has…
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