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ROAN MOUNTAIN — A small but very important parcel of land in the Roan Highlands has been acquired by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust conserving land

The Better With Bonds campaign has a very specific mission: Get Buncombe voters to say yes to $70 million in county borrowing. But whos running it?

Residents helped fund the purchase of a 139 acre property by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.

ASHEVILLE, N.C .— The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy has announced a future land acquisition of approximately 7,500 acres of land in the Roan Highlands. The land is being acquired from a conservation philanthropist. The tract lies within the southern end of the planning boundary of the Yellow Mountain State Natural Area, a special conservation area designated by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2008 to protect the area. The donation consists of dozens of separate-but-cont...

ASHEVILLE — Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) announced last week that it has signed a letter of intent to accept the donation of approximately 7,500 acres of land in the Roan Highlands landscape from a conservation philanthropist. The tract lies within the southern end of the planning boundary of the Yellow Mountain State Natural Area, a special conservation area designated by the NC General Assembly in 2008 to protect the exceptional natural features found there. Epic Gam...

Land donation protects key Roan Highlands landscape Wednesday, April 28, 2021 A record-setting land donation will conserve 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands, a success that Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy Stewardship Director Marquette Crockett describes as a “conservationist’s dream come true.” “Pristine roadless land that has not been timbered over is almost impossible to find in the Southern Appalachians in 2021, but this assemblage contains so much ...

Group’s work to bring 2,600 mountainous acres under protection ELIZABETHTON — The year 2020 has been a very bad year for many business activities. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has made it difficult to conduct meetings and close deals. Despite these problems, it has proven to be an unusually productive year for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, closing on the protection of more than 2,600 acres across the mountains of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. Angela ...