Conserving Carolina: Protecting LandsFeatured
For Nature and People. Forever.
Presented by Pam Torlina,
Community Engagement Director, Conserving Carolina
Connecting people who love the natural world.
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For Nature and People. Forever.
Presented by Pam Torlina,
Community Engagement Director, Conserving Carolina
Presented by Bill Jacobs, author of Whence These Special Place: The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands and Panthertown Valley
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Ever wonder why Looking Glass Rock and nearby Devil’s Courthouse have such radically different profiles, or why Looking Glass Falls is rugged and precipitous but a few miles upstream Sliding Rock is smooth and slidable? This program will answer these and many similar questions by exploring the processes, spread over more than 500 million years, that have created the western North Carolina mountains. Bill Jacobs will discuss the Blue Ridge mountains and the geology that has shaped specific mountains and waterfalls.
Bill Jacobs is the author of Whence These Special Places? The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands & Panthertown Valley. When he retired from his Atlanta-based legal career in 2011, he began pursuing his curiosity about the geologic origins of the mountains. After years of in-person and on-line courses, wide-ranging self-study, and numerous back-country explorations, he began to give presentations to interested groups as well as writing Whence these Special Places.
For Nature and People. Forever.
Presented by Pam Torlina,
Community Engagement Director, Conserving Carolina
at the Reuter Center at UNCA
April 8, 7:00 pm
Pam Torlina, a field biologist who has worked with Conserving Carolina for 18 years, will explore how the organization has successfully moved nearly 50,000 acres of special lands into permanent conservation, while also planning for public use, continued farm production, clean water, and more.
Conserving Carolina is based in Hendersonville and its area of concentration stretches from south Buncombe County into South Carolina. A current project includes the rugged Hickory Nut Gorge, where an ambitious effort is underway to protect selected lands and to connect them through an extensive network of trails.
This program is free and open to the public.
