by admin | Oct 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
10/23 Carrboro Council Chooses Preferred Alignment On October 17, 2023 the Carrboro Council voted 6-1 to approve an alignment for a multi-million-dollar 2-mile bikeway route cutting through Bolin Forest and running in the riparian buffer of Bolin Creek from Homestead...
by admin | Jul 1, 2023 | Birding, Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Bolin Forest, Carrboro Greenways Commission
Bolin Creek provides a home for an amazing diversity of creatures, including the rare four toed salamander, both in its waters and in the riparian buffer surrounding it. This stream also feeds into Jordan Lake, which is a water supply for over half a million people!...
by admin | Jun 28, 2023 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Bolin Forest
The Carrboro Council instructed the staff to conduct an “engagement process” to determine preferences for a new bikeway based on the 2009 Greenways Conceptual Plan which lacks one important route option. Friends of Bolin Creek in December 2009 presented...
by admin | Jun 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
We support greenways and bikeways that are not in our riparian buffers along creeks. Putting a 10 ft wide cement structure adjacent to Bolin Creek, as some on the Carrboro Town Council propose, will cause enormous ecological harm to creek life by removing trees,...
by admin | May 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bolin Creek Unpaved: Saving Carrboro’s Last Forest is an award winning feature documentary film that explores the diversity & beauty of Carrboro’s last intact riparian forest and the controversy surrounding its conservation. It’s a story about our town, but it’s...
