by admin | Nov 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Overview Bolin Creek traverses two very different bodies of rock: the Carolina terrane (formally known as the Carolina slate belt) and the Durham Triassic basin. From its headwaters near Bald Mountain to East Franklin Street, Bolin Creek flows over the...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Use creekwise gardening and landscaping practices. Make the most of your location next to a creek by helping to keep it healthy. Through proper care of stream banks and riparian vegetation, you can enhance your property, prevent erosion problems, avoid flood losses,...
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 | 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...
by admin | Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Conservation Planning Guide (PDF) to the Bolin Creek Natural Area documents the ecological wealth of the Bolin Creek Natural Area and makes recommendations on how we can plan with multiple land owners to protect the creek and the wildlife in this special forest...
