Triangle Land Conservancy partnered with the Hedges family to conserve 64 acres of historic farmland in Johnston County known as the Hedges Farm. This donated working lands conservation easement will protect vital farmland, forest, water resources, and natural habitats along Middle Creek.
On Wednesday, October 23, Triangle Land Conservancy and partner organizations welcomed over 200 community members to our annual Wild Ideas event held at the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. Centering each Wild Ideas around a public benefit of conservation, this year’s event – titled Habitats: Our Home – focused on what we as a community can do to protect local wildlife and natural spaces together.
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.
Triangle Land Conservancy’s annual Wild Ideas event returns on October 23 for a night at the North Carolina Botanical Garden! This year’s theme, Habitats: Our Home, celebrates and explores the diverse natural habitats found in the Triangle region of our state and how local conservation work is taking action to preserve and protect these spaces for both wildlife and human communities.
Learn about Asteraceae, one of the largest families of flowering plants in the world! These blooms are wonderful signs that fall has begun, as you’ll see countless of these blooms across our region.
TLC Volunteer Steven Feuerstein highlights sourwoods – a tree native to southeastern North America. These unique and lovely trees can be easily identified by their bark, leaves, and curving trunk, which creates a lovely “dancing” visual in the forest understory.
In March of this year, a prescribed burn was completed by TLC land stewards across 40 acres of Brumley South. This important land management tool was used to curb the spread of autumn olive, an invasive shrub prevalent throughout the preserve.
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’s photo contest is back! After a year hiatus, we’re excited to kick off 2024 with this exciting challenge and see our nature preserves through your camera lenses. This year, our photo challenge will feature four categories that represent each of TLC’s four public benefits of land protection: safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting […]
By Laura Warman, Grants Manager Spooky season might be past us, and we’ve even had the first freeze of the year, but as the growing season winds down late summer and fall are great times to spot spiders and their webs. Spiders, overall, are a fascinating group of creatures that have been around for about […]
