MountainTrue

High Country Habitat Restoration Coalition Workday 3/18/22
2022-03-18 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Murphy River Walk Volunteer Invasive Plant Workdays 3/14/22 - 4/4/22
2022-03-14 14:00 - 17:00

Virtual Green Drinks: The Value of Conserving Open Space and Farmland 3/10/22
2022-03-10 18:00 - 19:00
​​On Thursday, March 10 from 6:00-7:00 PM, Hendersonville Green Drinks presents the second of a four-part webinar series entitled Good Growth Makes Good Sense. The guest speaker will be Tom Fanslow, Director of Land Protection for Conserving Carolina. The presentation, The Value of Conserving Open Space and Farmland, is in direct response to public input, as reflected in the results of the early phases of Henderson County’s 2045 Comprehensive Planning process. This special monthly series is a collaboration between MountainTrue and Conserving Carolina.
In order to attend the webinar, please register by clicking here.
Upcoming Good Growth Makes Good Sense presentations:

April 14– Nature for All: Planning for Inclusive Greenways, Trails, and Parks – Rebekah Robinson
May 12– State of the River: How Land Use Planning Can Make or Break Water Quality – Gray Jernigan & Hartwell Carson

Spring 2022 SMIE Biomonitoring Training 3-5-22
2022-03-05 09:00 - 17:00

Southern Region Live Staking Workday 3-2-22
2022-03-02 10:00 - 15:00

Murphy River Walk Volunteer Invasive Plant Workday
2022-02-28 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-02-21 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-02-14 14:00 - 17:00

Waiting List: Winter Bird Watch on Lake Chatuge near Hayesville, NC 2-26-22
2022-02-26 07:30 - 09:30
At this time, the Winter Bird Watch is sold out. Please fill out the form below to add your name to the waiting list. If a spot opens up on the trip, we will contact those interested in the order they have signed up on the waiting list. Thank you.

REGISTER NOW! Buncombe County Recycling Center Tour in Woodfin, NC (2-25-22)
2022-02-25 13:45 - 15:00

Winter Tree ID & Ecology Hike near Hot Springs, NC (2-19-22)
2022-02-19 12:00 - 17:00

High Country Live Staking Workday (2/19/22)
2022-02-19 10:00 - 14:00

Southern Region Live Staking 2/16/22
2022-02-16 10:00 - 15:00
This event is sold out. Click here for another live staking workday opportunity.

Join MountainTrue and the City of Hendersonville to combat streambank sediment erosion in our local waterways through live staking workdays in our Southern Region. Live staking is the process of planting live cuttings of dormant trees in the riparian buffer zone along a streambank which helps filter stormwater runoff, protect vital aquatic habitat, and prevent soil erosion and sediment pollution. As these planted live stakes grow into trees, they stabilize the sides of rivers and creeks and reduce the amount of sediment and toxins flowing into the river. Come plant with us at one of our live staking workdays in Hendersonville in February!

If an event is sold out, please contact outings@mountaintrue.org to have your name added to the waiting list. If spots open up, we will notify you.

Special Hike Series: PALentine's Day Nature Preserve Hike in Gerton, NC (2/13/22)
2022-02-13 10:00 - 14:00

Winter Tree ID Hike near Hiawassee, GA 2/12/22
2022-02-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Hiawassee, GA 30546, Hiawassee, GA, 30546, United States

Smart Growth: Looking to the Past to Plan for Our Future Webinar
2022-02-10 18:00 - 19:00
On Thursday, February 10th, join Hendersonville Green Drinks guest Chris Joyell, MountainTrue’s Healthy Communities Director, to discuss the concept of “smart growth,” looking at ways we can make our cities and towns more liveable. The state projects that in the next 25 years, over 39,000 people will move to Henderson County. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the current populations of Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Fletcher, Laurel Park, and Mills River combined. Housing experts estimate that these newcomers will require 17,000 new homes. Where will these homes be built? Can our roads absorb this influx of new residents? How can we preserve our rural heritage while building town centers that people love?
Chris will explore these questions against the backdrop of Henderson County’s ongoing Comprehensive Planning effort. Using Smart Growth Principles as a guide, Chris will discuss how we can realize a vision for growth in Henderson County that encourages economic development, respects our natural resources and agricultural heritage and enhances our quality of life for generations to come.
Click here to register and receive the zoom link!
About Hendersonville Green Drinks
Hendersonville Green Drinks is presented by MountainTrue and Conserving Carolina. Come to Green Drinks to learn more about current environmental issues, have relevant discussions, and meet with like-minded people. This is a monthly event and everyone is welcome.

Community Perspectives of a Healthy Yampa River Webinar
2022-02-08 18:00 - 19:15

Murphy Riverwalk Volunteer Invasive Plant Workday 1-31-22
2022-01-31 14:00 - 17:00

High Country Live Staking Workday (1/28/22)
2022-01-28 10:00 - 14:00
Location TBD

Virtual The Story of Plastic Film Screening
2022-01-26 - 2022-02-01
Register below to receive a link for the film, The Story of Plastic, and a recorded Q&A hosted by MountainTrue and partners Asheville GreenWorks, Environment NC, To the Brim Refill Store, and WENOCA Group of the NC Sierra Club.
Access to viewing the film, The Story of Plastic, will be available until Feb 1.

Murphy Riverwalk Volunteer Invasive Plant Workday 1/24/22
2022-01-24 14:00 - 17:00

High Country Live Staking Workday (1/15/22)
2022-01-15 10:00 - 14:00
Due to the weather forecast, this workday has been canceled. If you are available, we invite you to register for our upcoming High Country live staking workday on January 21st. To view more details and register for this workday, click here.

Christmas Tree Recycling
2022-01-08 09:00 - 14:00 | Jackson Park Ball Field, 801 Glover St, Hendersonville, NC, 28792, United States
Are you dreaming of a more sustainable Christmas? Wondering what to do with your Christmas greenery after the holiday season ends? If so, come out to Jackson Park (Ballfield #6) on Saturday, January 8, between 9am-2pm, to recycle your Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands! Please note volunteers will not be helping unload the trees from the cars, so please make sure you come prepared to do this yourself. We hope to see you there!

High Country Live Staking Workday in Sugar Grove NC (12/17/21)
2021-12-17 10:00 - 14:00 | __, Sugar Grove, NC, 28679

Building Our City presents Centering Carbon Emissions in Planning
2021-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Webinar–online
Addressing climate change and carbon emissions is a crucial task. Moreover, unlike many other issues, it is one that local governments have substantial power to address. However, while comprehensive planning documents now often mention carbon emissions, it is rarely considered directly in decisions.
As part of the effort to meet carbon emissions goals, Raleigh has begun explicitly considering carbon emissions in all planning decisions – rezonings, area plans, code changes, and more. Those implications have, of course, always been present. They simply are not overtly acknowledged. The city’s new carbon emissions analysis responds both to the city’s goal for significantly reducing carbon emissions by 2050 and to specific policy embedded in the Comprehensive Plan. The analysis considers the effect of a plan or zoning change on per-capita emissions.
Jason Hardin is a senior planner with the City of Raleigh’s Planning and Development department. His work includes area planning, rezoning, code changes, and other planning studies. He recently has been involved in projects including planning for sustainability and equity around transit, measuring the carbon impacts of planning decisions, and addressing parking requirements and zoning barriers to housing choice and affordability. RSVP using the form below to receive the zoom webinar link.

Hike to Tusquitee Bald via Short Branch
2021-12-04 09:00 - 17:00

High Country Live Staking Workday (12/3/21)
2021-12-03 10:00 - 14:00 | The Valle Crucis Community Park, 2892 Broadstone Road, Valle Crucis, NC, 28604, United States
If you have any difficulties signing up, please get in touch with the Outings and Education Coordinator, Savannah Lytle, at outings@mountaintrue.org.

Murphy River Walk Volunteer Workday
2021-11-20 13:00 - 15:00 | McClelland Street Trailhead, 133 McClelland St,, Murphy, NC, 28906, United States

Fall Forest Communities Hike
2021-11-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Rough Ridge Overlook, 3218 Blue Ridge Pkwy, Linville, NC, 28646, United States

Virtual Hendersonville Green Drinks: Neighborhood Hawks
2021-11-11 18:00 - 19:00
After reading J. A. Baker’s fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. What he observed was very different from what Baker deduced from a decade of chronicling the lives of those brooding migratory raptors. Baker imagined a species on the brink of extinction because of the use of agricultural chemicals on European farms. A half-century later in America, Lane found the red-shouldered hawks to be a stable Anthropocene species adapted to life along the waterways of a suburban nation.
Lane will discuss following the hawks, his writing process, and the reception to his neighborhood Hawks.
Register here to get the zoom link!
About Hendersonville Green Drinks
Hendersonville Green Drinks is presented by MountainTrue, Conserving Carolina and Appalachian Coffee Co. Come to Green Drinks to learn more about current environmental issues, have relevant discussions, and meet with like-minded people. This is a monthly event and everyone is welcome.
