by don | Dec 21, 2011
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Wild South, the Western North Carolina Alliance (WNCA) and the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition (SAFC) announced last week that they had reached an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to protect nearly 50 acres of...
by don | Dec 14, 2011
A North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) press release on December 9 announced that work was underway, “…to restore habitat by promoting new forest growth for wildlife,” on the Catpen project. The Catpen area is on the south side of Bluff Mountain in the...
by don | Dec 8, 2011
As too often happens, in this whirlwind life, I lost my roundtoit. I received an email from the Western North Carolina Alliance at the end of November announcing public information meetings that would be held across the region regarding the settlement between the...
by don | Nov 30, 2011
That’s bird-Friday of course. And bird-Friday got off to a pretty chilly start. It was 26 degrees Fahrenheit when I got to Lake Junaluska at around 8:45 a.m. Not much has changed species-wise at the lake for the past couple of weeks or so except the red-heads were...
by don | Nov 23, 2011
Audubon NC Statement on Proposed Wind Development by Pantego Wind Energy LLC 11/18/11 Below is an overview of Audubon NC’s involvement in the proposed wind development project near Pantego, NC to date. 1) Both the National Audubon Society and Audubon North Carolina...
