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Stewardship on the Road: Caring for Conserved Lands, One Visit at a Time

authored by Wyatt Moyer At North American Land Trust (NALT), conservation doesn’t end when a Conservation Easement is recorded. Rather, that moment marks the beginning of a long-term commitment between NALT and the landowner, one focused on safeguarding conservation values while supporting those who actively steward the land. Conservation easement monitoring is a core and […]

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Learning beyond the classroom: outdoor Education Soars at Coastal High School

In 2023, Coastal High School, a small charter school in Myrtle Beach, set out to find a new home. The school identified four acres suitable for construction and moved forward with the purchase. What they did not expect was that the property also included a 100-acre preserve, formerly known as Tupelo Grove, already protected under

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NALT News, Projects, Stories From the Land

Turkey Neck Bend – Old Friends, the Cumberland River, and the Shallow Sea

authored by NALT Biogeographer, Williams Gandy I had a long but very good day yesterday. Betty and I left the house at 7:30am to meet a fellow western North Carolinian out in Tompkinsville, Kentucky on the Cumberland River. Jackie McClure placed over 1300 acres under a conservation easement with NALT back in 2011, just a

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Family Lands, Stories From the Land

St. James

NALT holds conservation easements on 6 properties consisting of golf courses, wetland communities, riparian corridors and other sensitive environmental areas within the community of St. James, NC which were identified and documented by NALT and the owners prior to construction of the St. James Community. The long-term sustainability and potential enhancement of these features was

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Projects

Southern Highlands Reserve

The Southern Highlands Reserve, a native plant arboretum located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, showcases native plants and the rare ecology of high-elevation Southern Appalachian forests. The garden, consists of 7 properties protected by the North American Land Trust, is designed to uphold and honor the spirit of the land. Southern Highlands

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Beaver Pond

An approximately 4-acre Butterfly Management Area comprising 3 acres of butterfly habitat and 1-acre buffer between the butterfly habitat and residential lots as well as a 154-acre open space parcel were placed into conservation easements with NALT. In order to assure that this small parcel continues to provide habitat for those species well into the

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Richland Ridge Study Area

The Richland Ridge Study Area includes seven environmentally sensitive parcels located in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina subject to conservation easements held by NALT. Among the natural communities found in the Richland Ridge Study Area is the rare and fragile Southern Appalachian shrub bog community. Unlike northern bogs of glacial origin, mountain bogs

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Reflections Riding

Palmetto Bluff describes a 22,000 acre property located just southwest of the town of Bluffton, and east of Hilton Head Island, in coastal South Carolina. Found just behind South Carolina’s line of barrier islands, including Hilton Head Island, Palmetto Bluff is itself an old barrier island. Its front consists of a line of parallel dunes

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Palmetto Bluff

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Lewis Ginter Native Reserve

Located on the property, the Cosby Family has amassed a truly impressive collection of Rhododendron (Rhododendron spp.) and azaleas (subgenus Tsutsuji and Pentanthera). To date the collection is home to 2,000 varieties of azaleas, 300 varieties of rhododendrons and numerous ornamental perennials and annuals. In addition to purchasing new specimens, plants are actively propagated on-site.

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