Hillrie Marshall Quin, Jr., age 76, passed away at home in Highlands from Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on March 12, 2020. Friends and family said Quin will be remembered for his love of nature and willingness to […]
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Board of Directors held their quarterly meeting on October 12 and approved the conservation of three new properties. These places will buffer other conserved lands in Cashiers and Highlands, help to protect the Town […]
A mere 7 minutes from downtown Highlands, Dixon Woods is a gentle, flat, series of public trails along Bowery Road managed and protected by the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. In total, Dixon Woods includes over a […]
Sarah Lown joins the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust to help the nonprofit with it’s mission of preserving and protecting thousands of acres on the Plateau. Lown will maintain trails and help with the continuous effort to […]
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust is offering two experiences this month that you don’t want to miss; an EcoTour on June 21 and their first Village Nature Series presentation of the season on June 25, co-hosted by […]
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT) gets a hand from the kids at the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau, who came out to HCLT’s McKinney Meadow in Cashiers on a sunny April afternoon to help […]
Spring is here and Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust is gearing up for a very full season of conserving our most treasured places! Because we believe an educated constituency makes for better stewards of our lands, an […]
The hemlock woolly adelgid is a small pest that feeds off the sap of a hemlock at the base of the needles and if left untreated, leads to the hemlock’s demise. Eastern and Carolina hemlocks […]
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust announced they have earned national re-accreditation through the prestigious Land Trust Accreditation Commission program. “It’s a lot of work but it’s worth the effort because it’s outside validation that we’re operating efficiently, […]
Last year was an outstanding year for land protection on the plateau! Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT) was able to conserve six new places. This brings the total HCLT conserved properties to date to 3,230 acres […]