Landowners choose conservation over development on Headwaters tract
Taylor and his wife decided to conserve their Headwaters land after discussing logging or sale for development with their three sons. A gift sale will fund the purchase, supported by CMLC, Conservation Fund of NC, and NC Forest Service with the Division of Forestry to manage the future public property at DuPont State Recreation Forest.
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Land Conservancy
Taylor
Roe
CMLC
The
Conservation Fund of North Carolina
North Carolina Forest Service
State Department of Agriculture
Division of Forestry
DuPont State Recreation Forest
Headwaters State Forest: staged opening after land acquisitions
The partnership has bought about 5,400 acres with nine grants and will not tax the state. Public access is limited to the Foothills Trail while inventories and a management plan are developed. Open to hunting only after final planning, not until late 2016, depending on further land acquisitions.
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Table Rock
Oconee State Parks
Michael Cheek
Forest Division
Cheek
Forest Service
Headwaters State Forest
DuPont
Fletcher teacher earns STEM Fellows fellowship
Fletcher Elementary School teacher Stephanie Patton is named a 2015 STEM Fellow. Twenty six winners were chosen from over seventy applications for a three year program by Discovery Place Education Studio to prepare educators for hands on learning in science technology engineering and math. The fellowship aims to deepen inquiry based STEM teaching and empower teachers to become community problem solvers.
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Fletcher
Discovery Place Education Studio
Stephanie Patton
Stephanie Hathaway
Discovery Place
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