Record #:

29858

Author(s):

Abstract:

Students at Mars Hill University’s Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies created a new exhibit titled, The Fight for Bluff: A Community’s Effort to Preserve Its Mountain. The display examines public outcry following a proposal in 1996 to clear-cut Bluff Mountain, Madison County’s highest peak. The students’ research tracked down documents and photos from activists, and how communities organized to save their mountain from destruction.

Source:

The Laurel of Asheville (NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 6, June 2017, p119, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Exhibitions; Bluff Mountain; Environmental action groups

Record #:

41266

Author(s):

Malone, Gina

Abstract:

Over the past several decades, RiverLink has been an organization dedicated to cleaning up the banks of the French Broad River, and has since created two new parks with the help of numerous volunteers.

Source:

Laurel of Asheville (NoCar F 264 A8 L28), Vol. 15 Issue 4, April 2018, p68-69

Subject(s):

French Broad River; Asheville; Volunteerism; Environmental action groups

Record #:

42791

Author(s):

Rumley, Vail Stewart

Abstract:

Forty years ago a fundamental change has taken place in the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico Rivers. Pollution had gotten to such a point in the Neuse River in particular that tourism and the housing market in the area were seeing sharp declines. Events culminated in 1989, when the river basin was declared commercially dead. With the work of "river keepers' an extensive program to reclaim the rivers was pursued. Recently in 2015, the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation and the Neuse River Foundation merged advocacies to become "Sound Rivers".

Source:

Washington the Magazine (NoCar F264.W3 W37), Vol. 10 Issue 1, January-February 2021, p28-34 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pamlico-Tar River Foundation; Neuse River Foundation; Environmental protection; Environmental action groups; Sound Rivers