by admin | May 3, 2016 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek paving controversy, Bolin Creek Watershed
Many knew about Carrboro’s 1B Multi-Use route (from Claremont to Homestead Road and then east to Chapel Hill High School. What almost no on knew until a few weeks ago was that the route would intersect with the High School’s Cross Country Course three...
by admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest
The blog post from Maria de Bruyn; Posted on April 4, 2016 This past Saturday morning, we awoke to water streaming from the heavens in quite a heavy downpour. A local conservation group, Friends of Bolin Creek, had scheduled a wildflower walk to see some of our...
by admin | Mar 9, 2016 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Coal Ash Dump, Conservation
Chapel Hill Police station, 828 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill In May 2014, the Town of Chapel Hill informed the public that a coal ash landfill was found to be located on the site of the Chapel Hill Police Building. For more than a decade in the 1960s and...
by admin | Jan 8, 2016 | Birding in Boilin Forest, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Creek Wildlife, Bolin Forest
My favorite discovery on moving here years ago, given I’m a transplanted Philadelphian, has been Bolin Creek. Its upper reaches, between Homestead Road and Estes Drive, offers the most beautiful and contrasting landscape. Here, you will find beaver swamps, Beech-tree...
by admin | Nov 17, 2015 | Bolin Creek, Bolin Creek Watershed, Bolin Forest, Pavement next to creeks
Friends of Bolin Creek sent this letter to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen expressing our strong concern that the Climate Change Task Force recommended a paved road next to Bolin Creek. The Board decided to remove the controversial wording and also asked the staff to...
by admin | Aug 27, 2015 | Bolin Creek Watershed, Building Rain Gardens
You can learn how to build a rain garden and improve the health of our creeks in our ongoing Rain Garden Program. Thanks to a Strowd Roses grant, Friends of Bolin Creek has continued our outreach this year to teach community members how easy it is to build a rain...
