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Another big chunk of North Carolina mountain property was recently protected from development. An 8,000-acre tract that is the largest privately-owned wilderness in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains has been placed under contract to conservation groups for $33 million, they said today. The Hendersonville-based Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and the Conservation Fund, a national group, said they [...] BOONE – Two land-conservation organizations that, between them, have protected more than 15,000 acres in Northwest North Carolina are merging, officials said yesterday. Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust, based in West Jefferson, and High Country Conservancy, based in Boone, are joining to form a new organization called Blue Ridge Conservancy. The merger will help the [...] For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo. [...] Even over here in Texas the word is getting out and people are noticing the policies of the Bush gang in Washington. Mountaintop Removal Mining has to be stopped and it will take the efforts of all of us to do it. I have made the point to switch my electric supplier to a company [...] |
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