News of the Black River in NC!
Chuck Roe (President of Southern Conservation Partners and Founding Director of the NC Natural Heritage Program), presents NC Registry of Natural Heritage Areas certificate to Clinton and Amy North in recognition of their commitment to protecting and restoring Moores Creek-Deer Valley natural areas.
Prothonotary warbler. Copyright Brady Beck Photography
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May 22, 2025: The Clint North family of Currie, NC, has been recognized for their voluntary agreement to conserve and restore approximately 1,990 acres of forestlands as part of the State of North Carolina’s Registry of Natural Heritage Areas. The conserved lands, adjacent to the US. National Park Service’s Moores Creek National Battlefield, are in five tracts owned and managed by the North family and contain high-quality natural areas plus additional areas where the family is restoring natural vegetation, such as longleaf pine forests.
Inclusion of properties on the Registry of Natural Heritage Areas recognizes their value as important natural areas. Registry is a voluntary pledge by landowners to continue to be conscientious stewards of important natural areas under their safekeeping. A registry agreement signed by the landowner declares their intention to continue to protect and manage the special biological assets and other ecological characteristics of their property. Moores Creek National Battlefield is also on the state’s Registry of Natural Heritage Areas, as one of the early sites to be registered. Moores Creek, along which these forestlands occur, flows into the Black River. While a substantial number of land areas along the Black River and its major tributary streams have over the years been acquired by land conservation organizations and state and federal agencies, most of the properties that are part of this extraordinarily important natural ecosystem will continue to be privately owned by individuals and corporations. READ MORE. Other private landowners committed to conservation of land and wildlife resources along the Black River and its tributary streams (e.g., Moores Creek) may be interested in entering into voluntary, nonbinding conservation management pledges for inclusion on the N.C. Registry of Natural Heritage Areas. To date hundreds of landowners across the state have entered their properties on the NHA Registry. For more information, please contact the NC Natural Heritage Program, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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Past News
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The initial meeting of more than forty Black River friends was held on April 16, 2024 at the National Park Service's Moores Creek National Battlefield (Pender County, NC) following a meeting of the Cape Fear Arch regional conservation coalition. In this meeting the steering committee for the Friends of the Black River was composed by volunteers.
This committee has continued to meet and has adopted statements of Mission, Purposes, and Goals. |
