When facing environmental challenges like climate change and disappearing habitats, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and wonder if individual actions can make much of a difference. Triangle Land Conservancy’s TriWild volunteer program provides an opportunity that demonstrates the opposite: each one of us can have a big impact on restoring native ecosystems. Since its beginnings […]
Ten years ago, TLC moved into the Duke Street office near sleepy downtown Durham. In the past three years, TLC’s staff has doubled in size as we have increased our land protection, stewardship, outreach, and fundraising efforts, as well as finance and administration team to support the growth necessary to double the pace of conservation. […]
Seeing a team of sturdy draft horses pulling a log down a forest path may invoke images of the old days before the advent of machines. Such was the sight recently at Three Bears, a TLC owned site in the Fall Lakes Watershed in northern Wake County. Our Stewardship staff enlisted the service of local […]
This fall, volunteers and members of the Conservation Corps of North Carolina helped TLC with the first step in establishing a multi-dimensional pollinator habitat project at the Williamson Preserve. Together with TLC staff, the Corps members planted 400 hardwood seedlings over an acreage of open field. Once established, the woody plants, which include white false […]
November 18, 2022 Durham, NC — A $10,000 commitment from Q2, an online financial firm with offices in Cary, will allow Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) to continue to inspire a diverse group of high school students to develop meaningful connections with nature. Q2’s grant will fund the Pathways Into Natural Environments and Science fellowship (PINES), […]
By Laura Warman, Grants Manager It’s early November, and although colorful leaves are the stars of the show, there’s still time to find flowers in the woods. You may know witch-hazel as a liquid you can by in the first aid or beauty section of a pharmacy – but did you know it comes from […]
By Musolé Kambinda, Communications Manager Protecting farmland is crucial to sustain local food systems, habitats, and water. In September, Triangle Land Conservancy secured an 86-acre agricultural conservation easement on a farm in Zebulon in Wake County. “This was the first TLC farmland project in Wake County that matched Federal and State funding resources with local […]
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On Friday, September 2nd, TLC recorded a conservation easement on Manco Dairy Farm. This 257-acre easement is on a Century Farm in Chatham County, owned and managed by the Mann family since 1840. The farm is Northwest of the town of Pittsboro, a rapidly expanding area in the County, with lots of new developments underway […]
By Hannah Royal, Stewardship Associate If you have chosen to read this article, I assume the title has hit some type of nerve – intrigue, anxiety, excitement, or a combination of the three. Snakes elicit a wide range of emotions from humans. Our state is home to 37 species of snake, only six of those […]
