| With Gilbert Yager’s encouragement and financial assistance, a young TLC
organization in the 1980s was able to conserve the most important natural area
in the Triangle—White Pines.
This fall, TLC opened the first new trail at White Pines in several years and
named it in honor of the preserve’s early champion who passed away in June. The
Gilbert Yager Trail explores the southern portion of the preserve, meandering
through several distinct forest types: dry oak-hickory forest on the ridge,
Piedmont bottomland forest in the Deep River floodplain, and several stands of
native white pines.
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