Researchers and conservationists found and saved the land where a colony of endangered Virginia big-eared bats roost.
Researchers and conservationists found and saved the land where a colony of endangered Virginia big-eared bats roost.
This spring, two land trust groups purchased a total of 190 acres of unprotected land in North Carolina’s Buncombe, Henderson and Caldwell counties.
At the end of 2014, several regional land trusts finalized a host of easements, conserving views, habitats and cultural sites across the Appalachian Mountains.