Did you know volunteers help keep TLC trails running? Since Brumley Preserve’s beginning volunteers from Triangle Off-Road Cyclists have made it possible to open and maintain trail for both hikers and bikers to enjoy. Learn more about this partnership here.
At the Bailey and Sarah Williamson Preserve, TLC is establishing a five-acre meadow to increase the conservation value of our land in our continued effort to protect natural habitats. Thanks to a grant from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, the meadow was seeded this spring with technical assistance from Garrett Wildflower Seed Farm.
TLC is excited to announce the purchase of Chicken Bridge Forest, a 108-acre parcel of land in Chatham County now owned by TLC. The land has 2,250 feet of perennial stream with a wide and rocky streambed leading directly to the Haw River. There are over 1,000 additional feet of intermittent stream area which feeds […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Caroline Durham As more land is conserved throughout the Triangle, it will take more manpower to steward our conservation easements. Because of the goals set in TLC’s new Strategic Action Plan, one person will no longer be sufficient to visit and monitor all of the properties under conservation easement. TLC is planning to launch […]
By Caroline DurhamWarmer weather is just around the corner, bringing us green leaves, fresh flowers, and… a new invasive tick species. The Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) was first discovered in the United States in August of 2017 on a sheep in western New Jersey. Since then, it has been found on people, livestock, domestic […]
