National Invasive Species Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 28-March 4, 2011
On Wednesday, March 2, the Greenway Invasives Partnership (GRIP) will host a fun educational fair and “weed pull” for Macon County school students and the general public at the Greenway’s Big Bear Playground and Shelter.
Educational demonstrations, lead by local experts, will be open to the public from 12:30-1:30pm (school groups will visit before lunch). Topics of discussion will include exotic invasive species identification and control tactics, native plant identification and uses in the landscape, stream bank restoration, and other conservation practices. The weed pull will run from 8:30am-11:30am and 1:30-2:30pm. Tools, gloves, drinks and snacks will be provided.
We hope you can make it! Come stroll amongst the educational demonstrations and get your burning questions answered from experts in a casual, fun atmosphere. Or, if you are in the mood to break a sweat, please join us as we attack an enormous privet patch crowding out native species adjacent to the Greenway path. For more information contact Sunny Himes, GRIP project coordinator, at 828-507-1188 or [email protected]. (Note: Big Bear Playground is located on Franklin’s Main Street beside the Little Tennessee River bridges. Rain date: March 3)
Exotic invasive species are the greatest threat to biodiversity in the United States, second only to habitat loss. The United States suffers from $1.1-120 billion per year in economic losses due to exotic, invasive species. Approximately 42% of Threatened or Endangered species are at risk due to non-native, invasive species.
Coggins Bend for Sale 1/11/2011
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) is considering offers for a 1-acre lot which is fronted by a 15-acre conserved property adjacent to the Little Tennessee River in northern Macon County.
– The lot is accessed from NC Hwy 28 by a 1-mile roadway easement.
– The lot has non-exclusive foot-traffic access to approximately 2,100 feet of river frontage across the conserved property.
– Building restrictions on the 1-acre lot limit improvements to structures subject to height and aesthetic restrictions and limited to an aggregate of 2,000 square feet.
– Building location will be limited to an area defined by LTLT.
– LTLT strongly prefers an exchange for other property that has frontage on the Little Tennessee River, that adjoins other protected land, and that has other significant conservation values.
For more information, interested parties should contact Sharon Taylor with LTLT at 828-524-2711or [email protected]. Serious inquires only.
This is a picture of Coggins Bend Property
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