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No Buffers, No Birds
This article by naturalist Mary Sonis originally appeared in the Chapel Hill News on November 23, 2015. With a growing appreciation of our birds and the disappearance of wild places, it's worth rereading. Bolin Creek saw a great turnout of migrating warblers this...
More Bad News from Raleigh
Conservation Insider Bulletin: June 20, 2016 Multiple bills to gnaw away more environmental protections crawled out of the legislative woodwork, plus more news, this week in CIB: Legislative Watch: Attacks Broaden Against Clean Water and Land Quality Laws Multiple...
Contact your representative!
From the NC State Sierra Club….. Dear Environmentalist, Years of progress -- and yes, leadership-- in cleaning up our state's rivers is on the chopping block. Your help is urgently needed today. Last week, the NC Senate unveiled and virtually overnight passed a plan...
The Story of Chapel Hill High’s Cross Country Team and Course
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 times. The...
NC DEQ Solar Bee Analysis
Last week the North Carolina Division of Environmental Quality Report released a report on the efficiency of the solar bees in Jordan Lake. Ir was removed from the state website shortly after it was posted. What we learn is that here is no solution other than to...
A Wildflower Walk with Surprises!
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...