Guest Post from Legal Intern, Nicole DiBartolo March 6, 2018 My passion for the environment and nature started at a very young age. My parents joke that it all started when they took me to see Chicken Run, a movie about chickens that were trying to escape a farm after they found out they were …
by Barbara Haralson, PLC Hiker and Guest Blogger – I am not comfortable asking friends for donations, nor have I ever enjoyed hosting those parties where guests are expected to buy merchandise, so I went into the Piedmont Land Conservancy Hike-a-Thon with some reluctance. I loved the idea of raising money for such an important …
by PLC Hiker Otis Durham: Months ago, with Greg Keener’s encouragement, I agreed to become a Piedmont Land Conservancy Hike-A-Thon fundraising hiker. I told Greg I’d likely be in Portland, OR visiting my daughter. “No problem. Hike wherever you are!” I assumed this would give me good motivation to get out in the grandeur and …
A follow-on post about Wolf Island Prairie by PLC Land Owner Mike Vaughan: Sharing a note from a recent morning after a late summer rain ….Because of the rain last night I figured that the Collies and I might find a Box turtle on our prairie walk this morning. Even so, I was surprised, when …
by PLC Land Owner Mike Vaughan: At the back of my mind, a little voice whispered an old Chinese saying that we should be careful what we ask of the gods. It’s January 2016, and I’m talking to Brandon Price, whom I’ve contracted to carry out a prescribed burn on 20 acres of our land …
By Michelle Leonard, Former PLC Board Member & Mayor Pro Tem of Bethania “Where are you from?” It’s a commonly asked question here in the South and it’s one that sparks many fruitful conversations among friends and strangers alike. I’ve lived in Bethania for 14 years now, but it was at my very first community gathering in …
