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The Conservation Trust for North Carolina is "a land trust that focuses mostly on the Blue Ridge Parkway, although we also help the 23 other land trusts that exist all over the state," says CTNC executive director Reid Wilson. "We lobby for them, manage their contracts with foundations and government agencies, and have a donor-established $4.3 million loan fund for mountain land trusts."
Even in August, when the huckleberries bloom along the Appalachian Trail , it seems like Christmas at Whitetop Mountain. Near the tri-state corner of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, this mile-high peak in southwest Virginia rises in three count...
Besides obviously a canoe and dry box or bag and perhaps a rod for fishing and binoculars for birding, what are some essential items for canoe camping the Blue Ridge's rivers during the warm weather period?
Ty Cobb 's professional baseball career began in Augusta, Ga., with the Augusta Tourists minor league team. Today, the Augusta Green Jackets are the Class A team of the San Francisco Giants, in the South Atlantic League.
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It’s one of those typical days in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. My husband and are stuck behind a line of slow-moving cars taking the popular and almost always overcrowded Cades Cove loop tour. But our destination is a litt...
