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Spring/Summer 2014 DOUBLE YOUR DOLLARS & Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage SAVE THE PLACES YOU LOVE PAID DURING OUR SUMMER Permit #593 FOOTHILLS BLUE RIDGE FOOTHILLS Asheville, NC FOOTHILLS CONSER VANCY PROTECTION CHALLENGE ! of North Carolina WATCH YOUR MAILBOX FOR DETAILS CONSER VANCY P.O. Box 3023 135 1/2 West Union Street Morganton, NC 28680 of North Carolina foothillsconservancy.org NEWS SPRING-SUMMER 2014 Coalition Works to “Shore Up” E Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled fiber Lake James Conservation Zoning Scenic Lake James and its For example, homes must be FILL YOUR CALENDAR WITH OUTDOOR FUN! surrounding mountain lands, set back a minimum of 125 ft Check www.foothillsconservancy.org for up-to-date event listings. including the Linville Gorge, from the shoreline to minimize are much loved by people run-off, and trees must be near and far who come to left to hide structures from LOST COVE HIKE JOHNS RIVER PADDLE & CLEAN-UP CATAWBA RIVERFEST hike, boat, fish and spend view. Building height and Saturday, May 24, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Friday, August 22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, September 20 time with friends and family lighting restrictions further Hike to the top of Big Lost Cove Cliffs with FCNC’s Have a fun day exploring & cleaning up along one Lake James State Park, Paddy Creek Access Andrew Kota on this popular, moderately of our region’s best-kept secrets. Enjoy a day at Lake James & learn about the in one of North Carolina’s protect the natural shoreline strenuous hike in Pisgah National Forest. Canoes & assistance provided by CBS Sports. many groups working to protect the Catawba premier outdoor recreation views, while maximum 25% Free to FCNC members. Non-members $10. Free & open to the public. River & its lakes at this annual event. areas. slope and 10% impervious Free & open to the public. surface restrictions, along WATERFALL & BLUEGRASS HIKE MUSHROOM FORAY AT In the late 1990s and early with strict septic system Saturday, June 7, 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. BUCK CREEK GAP MUSIC & STORYTELLING AT 2000s, Foothills Conservancy requirements and storm water Refreshments & bluegrass music by Gary Saturday, August 30, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. THE ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS was part of a broad coalition control measures, help protect McCurry & friends will await hikers at a historic Become familiar with fungi on a hike on new Saturday, September 27 of conservation groups, the lake’s waters from sediment log cabin after a strenuous hike to South FCNC-owned land near the Blue Ridge Parkway Check www.foothillsconservancy.org Burke County officials and and pollutants. Mountains’ Shoal Creek Falls led by FCNC board member & avid mycologist in August for time & details. citizens who worked together to find led by FCNC’s Tom Kenney. Jim Goldsmith. Enjoy hay rides, hiking, home-made ice cream ways to protect the lake’s scenic views and Lake James State Park below Short Off Because of the significance of Lake James’ Free to FCNC members. Non-members $15. Free to FCNC members. Non-members $10. & fall apples as Revolutionary War-clad water quality, enhance public access to and Table Rock in the Linville Gorge waters, which feed the Catawba River -- interpreters bring history alive at this the lake’s waters and shoreline, the drinking water source for more than FIRST BROAD RIVER PADDLE joint OVTA, CTNC, FCNC & BRC event. SAVE THIS DATE! and encourage conservation-minded two million Carolinians -- and of the miles & PROPOSED RESERVOIR TOUR Free & open to the public. A greatly expanded Lake James State Park SATURDAY , O CTOBER 11 development by Crescent Resources, at of lakeshore lands which link to Pisgah Saturday, July 12, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and a new Linville State Game Land the time a subsidiary of Duke Energy and National Forest and the Linville Gorge Float your kayak or canoe along a beautiful stretch OVERMOUNTAIN VICTORY resulted from these efforts, along with FALL HARVEST the largest landowner at the lake. National Wilderness Area, any requests to of this ancient river that would be inundated by a CANE CREEK BATTLEFIELD TOUR model conservation district zoning controversial proposed reservoir. Led by David 2014 FLAVORS OF THE FOOTHILLS Saturday, October 4 change Burke County’s 2004 conservation BENEFIT DINNER & AUCTION!! adopted by Burke County in 2004 which Caldwell & FCNC's Susie Hamrick Jones. Join FCNC & the OVTA for an interpretative tour measures must always be carefully has since guided the successful Free & open to the public. Check website this summer of this Revolutionary War Battlefield. considered to make sure that the lake’s W HAT ' S I NSIDE development of the lake’s newest for details. Free & open to the public. views and waters remain protected. Crescent subdivisions at Dry Creek and Gift Keeps Giving ...........................................2 1780. Over the past eight months, Foothills Grants Protect History & Water ............3 Conservancy, Lake James Environmental On the Burke County side of the lake, new RSVP required for all FCNC outings at [email protected] or at 828-437-9930. Taking Care of the Land .........................4-5 Association, Table Rock Trout Unlimited, developments, such as these, are now Check www.foothillsconservancy.org for updates, details and any cancellations prior to event. 2013 Protection Successes ...................6-7 the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation and Wear appropriate clothing and footwear, and bring your own water and food if desired. planned in such a way as to minimize or Donor Thanks! ..........................................8-11 the South Mountains Chapter of the Sierra eliminate impacts to the lake’s natural Club have once again worked closely Saying Thanks & Goodbye ....................11 shoreline views and water quality. together as the “Lake James Conservation Saving the places you love Continued on page 4 F ROM O UR D IRECTOR O UR M ISSION N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina, a nationally accredited regional land trust, is dedicated to working cooperatively with landowners and public and private Grants Will Help Protect Revolutionary War Site conservation partners to preserve and protect important natural areas and open spaces of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills region, Gift of Conservation Land & Important Watershed Lands including watersheds, environmentally significant habitats, forests and farmland, for Two highly competitive grants awarded last December this and future generations. The Conservancy, Will Keep on Giving a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit, serves eight counties: by the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Fifteen years ago, Mae Comer Parker (CWMTF) will help Foothills Conservancy and its Cleveland, Lincoln, McDowell and Rutherford. Boles of Colfax, NC, called Foothills partners protect two very different sites in Burke and Conservancy’s office to ask if we L EADERSHIP Rutherford County this year and in 2015. would be interested in helping her BOARD OF DIRECTORS find a way to permanently protect a Carl Spangler, Chairman Cleveland County special tract of land that her parents Charles Burgin, Vice Chairman had dearly loved. McDowell County Shara Owensby, Secretary Growing up in Morganton, Mae had Burke County often explored the 34 acres near Robin Brackett, Treasurer Lake Tahoma and Buck Creek along Cleveland County HWY 80 above Marion with her Ron Beane Peg Broyhill mother, Elizabeth, and father, Scott Caldwell County Caldwell County Osborne, who was president of Tom Foster Jim Goldsmith Morganton’s First National Bank. Catawba County McDowell County A woods road winds th Adjoining Pisgah National Forest, it rough the heart of the donated Kelly Hawkins Susan Powers Boles property, now permanently Burke County Caldwell County was a special forested retreat filled prote cted by a conservation easement. Mike Tanner with rhododendron along a small Rutherford County stream. A modern-day “Overmountain Victory Man” brings Susie Hamrick Jones To honor her parents, Mae decided to donate the land to Foothills Conservancy with the Revolutionary War history to life for hundreds of Rutherford Ex-Officio understanding that it could eventually be sold to a conservation buyer. If sold, it would be County school children at Gilbert Town. subject to a conservation easement to forever protect its forests, creek waters, scenic vistas S TAFF and other natural treasures while allowing one home site but no subdivision. Gilbert Town National Susie Hamrick Jones, Executive Director Tom Kenney, Land Protection Director Mae’s gift would then not only protect her parent’s special retreat, but would keep on giving Historic District Andrew Kota, Stewardship Director when the conservancy used the proceeds from a sale to help conserve other special places. Mary Braun, Office Manager South Mountains It took years of perseverance by a private landowner and Foothills Early this year Foothills Conservancy completed a conservation sale of the Boles property to Conservancy staff to forge the right partnerships and locate an C ONSULTANTS appropriate source of project funding to facilitate a conservation conservation buyer Tim Gillion and simultaneously placed a conservation easement on the Headwaters-Simms easement project at the Gilbert Town National Historic District in Suzi Berl, Grants & Organizational Development property. Tim plans to eventually live on the land and pursue his interest in propagating and Edward Norvell, Legal & Land Protection Rutherford County. During the waning days of the Revolutionary growing native plants. Hill Tract War, both the British and the Patriots – the Overmountain Victory Foothills Conservancy received a $592,000 grant in December 2013 Men -- camped in succession at Gilbert Town on their way to the Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina The conservation sale generated proceeds that will help support additional land and water from the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF) for the Battle of Kings Mountain, influencing the course of American history. P.O. Box 3023 conservation projects throughout our region, and a portion will endow the annual required Morganton, NC 28680 purchase of 2,113 acres in the South Mountains of Burke County.
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