Blue Ridge Conservancy and NC Wildlife Resources Commission acquired 630 acres at the headwaters of the Yadkin River to protect a significant population of Southern Appalachian brook trout. The purchase establishes the first conservation project in the Dennis Creek watershed and is intended to safeguard aquatic habitat and water quality in the region.
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Six hundred thirty acres of the Yadkin River headwaters are now protected from development, safeguarding one of the region's last strong populations of native Southern Appalachian brook trout. Blue Ridge Conservancy and NC Wildlife Resources Commission closed the deal, marking the first conservation project in the Dennis Creek watershed and a genuine win for the creeks that feed everything downstream. This matters, clean water starts here, and native trout cannot live in warm, silted, damaged streams. The land is locked up now. In the best way.
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