Picture an oak in your mind. What do you see? Do you imagine a large, tall tree in the middle of a field? Or do you picture a small, scrubby shrub on a sun-baked rock? Either way, you are right. Oaks come in all shapes and sizes. There are approximately 500 species – everything from […]
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Stories From the Land, UncategorizedA small fox scrambles across a dirt road. Turkey and deer tracks provide evidence of a marsh visit. A juvenile eagle flies out of an oak tree heading across a field, while an osprey flies over a creek. Just another day in the office for the field biologists at North American Land Trust (NALT). The
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Stories From the LandTHE GROUP EFFORT TO PRESERVE THIS ENDANGERED BUTTERFLY’S HABITAT IN SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK May is the ultimate celebration of the spring season; many of us are in the garden getting our hands dirty, the birds wake us up every morning with their melodic tunes, and flowers are bursting with color. In Saratoga Springs, New
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Limited Development, Stories From the LandHOW PARTNERS ARE CREATING AN INCLUSIVE NATURAL ESCAPE ON A NALT CONSERVATION AREA “The outdoors is for everyone” is a mantra many of us have heard, but what does that actually look like? For someone with mobility challenges, exploring a new outdoor area means planning for the unknown, from start to finish: “transportation, parking, restrooms, curbs,
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Family Lands, Stories From the LandCONSERVING CLUSTERS OF PARCELS TO PROTECT A UNIQUE NATURAL LANDMARK Located at the southernmost end of the Cumberland Plateau, you’ll find Lookout Mountain and Sand Mountain, which came to exist 290 to 250 million years ago when the North American and African plates collided, causing the rock strata—the layer of sedimentary rock or soil formed
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Family Lands, Stories From the LandFORMER LINEMAN JASON BROWN QUITS THE NFL AND TURNS TO FARMING ON CONSERVED LAND Many of North American Land Trust’s (NALT) landowners are what we call second or third generation landowners, meaning they did not place a conservation easement on their property, but rather purchased it with a NALT easement already in place. Often times,
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Family Lands, Stories From the LandHOW CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND HUNTING ARE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL AT SOUTHWIND PLANTATION Born in the late 19th century, the conservation movement exists today thanks largely in part to hunters. While it may seem counter-intuitive to think that the people permanently removing turkey, deer and bear from this world are conservationists, the truth is that responsible hunters
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Family Lands, Limited Development, Stories From the LandPROTECTING ONE FAMILY’S DEDICATION TO THE LAND Now with the spring season in full bloom, many of us are spending these warmer days in our backyards, planting flowers that attract pollinators, weeding invasives to make room for native species, raking debris and cultivating the land for a summer or fall harvest of fruits and veggies.
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Family Lands, Stories From the LandIt’s no secret that things that are vital to our livelihoods — housing, industry and infrastructure development — impact wildlife habitat and open space values. To address this, developers are often required to permanently protect similar habitat through mitigation and a conservation easement, which is how NALT was able to help save the Delmarva fox
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Stories From the LandLANDOWNERS EXCEED STEWARDSHIP EXPECTATIONS Situated east of Panthertown Valley in Jackson and Transylvania Counties and south of Toxaway River Headwaters, just along the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, you’ll find an extensive set of Montane Acidic Cliffs surrounded by high elevation forests with dots of pink-shell azalea (Rhododendron vaseyi) that stand out against the dense
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