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...
by don | Nov 23, 2011
Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge just finished waving goodbye to the Navy, its fighters and their outlying landing field only to turn around and see seeds planted that would sprout 500-foot tall wind turbines, each with a blade sweep of about one...
by don | Nov 17, 2011
I don’t remember exactly what I was doing when he came into the room. It was cool, so I had the small electric heater on and I had some coffee and a snack. I was doing some Internet research, so I had a few web pages open on my browser and I was trying to concentrate,...
by don | Nov 12, 2011
Last Saturday afternoon was a gorgeous autumn afternoon across Western North Carolina. Last Saturday morning, however, when Bob Olthoff and I had a play date to do some birding at Tessentee Bottomland Preserve, it was socked-in, cold and damp. Birds were hunkered down...
by don | Nov 3, 2011
The annual fall hike in the Town of Waynesville’s 9,000-acre watershed took place on Saturday October 29. Around 25 stalwart hikers showed up despite the cold, wet and windy Friday overnight and socked-in, iffy-looking conditions Saturday morning, to see and learn a...
by don | Oct 27, 2011
Ten years later and one hurdle leapt – there will be more. Last week the 10th U.S. Circuit court of Appeals upheld the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule after the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association brought suit claiming the rule was in violation...
