The votes are in, and all six first-term board members have been elected! Congratulations to Johnny Burleson, Marlena Byrne, Bert Fisher, Jay McLeod, Will Morgan, and Clarenda Stanley! TLC is lucky to have such a hardworking, dedicated, and intelligent Board of Directors guiding our work! Read the bios of our six new members below, and […]
Y’all are incredible — thank you to everyone who donated to TLC this #GivingTuesday! We are thrilled to have met and then exceeded both of our challenge matches: $10,000 from the Bates Foundation and $10,000 from Wind Point Foundation. Our supporters really brought it home for us by meeting our final challenge — $25,000 for […]
JOHNSTON COUNTY (Oct. 15, 2019) — Triangle Land Conservancy helped save 1,120 acres just east of Smithfield on Tuesday with the purchase of Brogden Bottomlands, one of the largest unprotected natural heritage sites in TLC’s six-county region, with over two miles of frontage on the Neuse River along the future Mountains-to-Sea-Trail route. This property will […]
Get ready Triangle — next month, more than 1,800 conservation professionals will be making their way to Rally Raleigh, where they’ll get to see the TLC projects and preserves our supporters made possible. The Land Trust Alliance (LTA) annual conference, Rally, is the largest annual gathering of conservationists from the United States, Canada, South America […]
(All) the trails at Brumley North are once again open to the public! TLC is thrilled that the new bridge across Stony Creek at Brumley North is complete, and thanks to your generous support, we’ve raised almost half the funds needed for the unexpected $30,000 repair. Now that Brumley North trails are open just in […]
Our excitement is growing as work kicks into high gear at the Sarah and Bailey Williamson Preserve at Walnut Hill for the Grand Opening on April 25, 2020! We have welcomed the first farmers to the property through our partnerships with Wake County’s NextGen Farming Program and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) and […]
By Jack Blackmer Thanks to a donation from a generous family who loved their family’s land, there is a shady oasis in the midst of one of the most rapidly developing areas in Wake County that is now owned and protected forever by TLC! Totaling 24 acres of rich bottomland hardwood forest and wetlands teeming […]
By Margaret Sands News this good was hard to keep to ourselves! As you know, on Earth Day 2017, we celebrated the grand opening of Brumley Nature Preserve in Orange County with 1,300 outdoor enthusiasts. Each month 3,000 hikers, bikers, dog walkers, runners, Pokémon seekers, birders, volunteers, photographers, students, and nature lovers visit the 613-acre […]
By Ron Gallagher The highly successful and innovative Upper Neuse Clean Water Initiative, already well into its teenage years, is about to get a sibling. This fall, TLC and multiple partners unveil the Jordan Lake Watershed Conservation Strategy that will be a component of a new water-protection effort called the Jordan Lake One-Water initiative (JLOW). […]
By Caroline Durham Many landowners are familiar with the growing number of unwelcome guests taking over North Carolina’s Piedmont. They’re taking over your hardwood forests, your beautiful riverbeds, and even your backyard garden. Some of these trespassers include the ever-present Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum), the stubborn Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense), and the rapidly colonizing Tree […]
