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Speaker Series: Simple Ways to Mutually Co-Exist with Wildlife in our Own Backyards

Walnut Creek Preserve 179 Wood Thrush Ln, Mill Spring, NC, United States

Walnut Creek Preserve Speaker Series: Simple Ways to Mutually Co-Exist with Wildlife in our Own Backyards February 17 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm This is a free event. Advance reservations required. Please RSVP online at :https://conservingcarolina.org/calendar/. Appalachian Wild provides injured and orphaned wild animals a place to go for care and treatment to give […]

Saluda Library Speaker Series: Cherokees of the Carolinas

Saluda Community Library 44 W Main St., Saluda, NC, United States

Free speaker series: Cherokees of the Carolina. Based on 30 years of research, naturalist, outdoor writer, and historian Dennis Chastain will present his findings of the history and culture of the Cherokee people. The Cherokee people have lived in this area for thousands of years and are the aboriginal inhabitants and keepers of a vast […]

Special Film Screening of “The Nature Makers”

Historic Tryon Theatre 45 S Trade Street, Tryon, NC, United States

Enjoy a free screening of "The Nature Makers" at the Historic Tryon Theatre. In a world increasingly dominated by humans, three teams of determined conservationists go to extraordinary, often seemingly nature-disrupting lengths to save three threatened species in the American heartland. “The Nature Makers” is a moving portrait of passionate people and the extraordinary creatures […]

Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Landscape at Saluda Library

Saluda Library 44 W Main St, Saluda, United States

April 9, 2-3:30pm at Saluda Library, 44 W. Main St., Saluda, NC. Using plants in ways that create pleasing and attractive gardens can be as simple as using nature for your inspiration. By including a diversity of native plants, focusing on species that support native insects, birds, and other wildlife, your landscape can become not […]

“For the Love of Bats” Presentation at Saluda Library

Saluda Community Library 44 W Main St., Saluda, NC, United States

Free: May 14, 2pm, at Saluda Library. The program will focus on the only flying mammal, bats. Mark Ray will discuss some of the bat species found in western North Carolina, where they live, and why they are beneficial to have around. He will also share the most recent research on White Nose Syndrome and […]