COASTLINES VOLUME 18 // ISSUE 3 // Fall 2018
Coastal Land Trust
New partnerships
“Partners are key in all we do.”
Janice Allen Deputy Director, Coastal Land Trust
Preservation Takes Flight
New Partnership with Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Tim Supple, volunteer with Friends of the Mountainsto-Sea Trail, assists Coastal Land Trust with new agreement to allow camping at its Everett Creek Preserve.
Land Trust Opens Preserve for Mountains-to-Sea Hikers Coastal Land Trust has formed a new partnership with Friends of the Mountainsto-Sea Trail (MST) that will take hikers from the coast to the mountains! Through this partnership, Coastal Land Trust will open its Everett Creek Preserve in Onslow County to MST hikers. MST hikers can now enjoy not only a stop at Everett Creek Everett Creek, continued on page 2
Ocracoke Nature Walk Plans in Place “Having three non-profits coming together along with a Federal Government entity for the benefit of our visitors and local residents is pretty cool,” said Greg Honeycutt. Greg is spearheading the Coastal Land Trust’s efforts to raise money for the Ocracoke Nature Walk. The Coastal Land Trust is partnering Ocracoke, continued on page 4
Denise Evans, front left, touring the Salmon Creek property, with staff members Camilla Herlevich and Lee Leidy on the left. Across, on the right, are Misty Buchanan of N.C. Natural Heritage Program and John Finnegan of NC State Parks.
Say “Hornets, Harriers, and Osprey” and the first thing that likely comes to mind is winged creatures. But here in Eastern North Carolina, it likely refers to some of the aircraft flown by our omnipotent military. Training troops and pilots for real world combat is the obvious focus of our military bases. However, believe it or not, some installations also regularly work
with state natural resources agencies and/or conservation organizations to protect land for wildlife and/or water quality enhancement. Why? Starting in the late 1990’s, the Department of Defense became increasingly concerned about Seymour Johnson AFB, continued on page 7
Partnership in Brunswick County
Keeping the Faith One of the Coastal Land Trust’s more unusual partnerships is with Cedar Hill West Bank Heritage Foundation to help save Reaves Chapel in the Brunswick County town of Navassa. Reaves Chapel is one of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal churches in the area. It was built during the 1880’s at a popular stop along the Cape Fear River. It was the mission church for the Cedar Hill Planation and the descendants of Gullah Geechee people who worked on the rice plantation. When Mount Misery and Cedar Hill roads were built, roads, not the river became the main mode of transportation. With logs and Keep the Faith, continued on page 5
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