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Welcome to the Friends of Bolin Creek!
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!...
Carrboro Launches One-Sided Survey
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 the Seawell...
Where do we stand on the proposed bikeway along Bolin Creek?
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,...
Video: Bolin Creek Unpaved: Saving Carrboro’s Last Forest
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...
Conservation Planning Guide
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...
Carrboro Board Reopens Paving Along Bolin Creek
Update 11/18/22: Carrboro Board Reopens Paving Along Bolin Creek At a Carrboro Town Council meeting last fall, the Town Council voted to reopen a community discussion about a 14-year-old proposal to consider a paved bikeway along Bolin Creek as a transportation...