HCLT to conserve 100 acre tract of pristine land in Cashiers
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT) is under contract on 100 acres of raw and pristine land in Cashiers. Fully surrounded by U.S. Forest Service land, this property is visible from Whiteside Mountain and protects streams in the Chattooga watershed.
Land trust surpasses 70,000 acres of permanent conservation
The Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina has now permanently protected more than 70,000 acres in the South Mountains after a 1,460-acre acquisition in the Pinnacle Mountains of McDowell and Rutherford counties pushed it over the mark to a total of 70,193 acres conserved since its founding in 1995.
Talk land conservation with the Sierra Club
Look behind the scenes of a land conservation project with a presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at Manheimer Auditorium at the University of North Carolina Asheville, and via Zoom.
