FAYETTEVILLE, December 15, 2021 – On December 8, 2021, the Fayette Chamber of Commerce presented the 2021 Young Gamechangers Award to Katie Pace Quattlebaum, CEO & Executive Director of the Southern Conservation Trust. The Young Gamechangers Award is presented to a young person, under 40,......
Photograph of Sams Lake Bird Sanctuary: David Hermecz October 20, 2021: Today, the Georgia Water Coalition, Georgia’s leading water protection coalition released its Clean 13 report for 2021. The report highlights individuals, businesses, industries, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies whose extraordinary efforts have led to......
Seven to Ten thousand years ago the story of chicken domestication began. The Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus) was domesticated in Asia, the earliest fossils bones dating to approximately 5400. B.C. in northern China. Once chickens were domesticated, they spread throughout the world over the......
FAYETTEVILLE, August 26, 2021 – The Southern Conservation Trust (SCT) today announced it has donated 120.37 acres of land to Newton County, Georgia and Rockdale County, Georgia for a new park and nature area. The land protects frontage on a perennial stream that flows into......
FAYETTEVILLE, GA, September 7, 2021 — There is no place like Georgia, that’s why the Southern Conservation Trust (SCT) focuses its annual benefit on conservation in our great state. The Southern Conservation Trust invites Georgia and their Southeastern community members to sign up for their......
JUNE 8, 2021 — “Restoring native longleaf forests to large tracts in the Sandhills is a desirable though costly enterprise. An ambitious new project on the outskirts of Pinehurst aims to find the “magic sauce” that can synthesize economic and conservation forestry goals. Nick’s......
FAYETTEVILLE, May 21, 2021 – The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR) Conservation Committee and the Fayette County James Waldrop Chapter recently presented the Southern Conservation Trust with the distinguished DAR Conservation Medal and Conservation Certificate of Award in recognition of......
Photograph taken by Brian McKnight on the Flint River Cicadas, a creature whose sounds we all relate to warm summer evenings after even hotter days. There are many different species of cicadas, and the ones heard every year are considered annual cicadas. But what......
If you could have tiny roses come up across your lawn that were no higher than your lawn, would you like it? Imagine little dots of pink, or burgundy, yellow, peach spread across the lawn. Pretty, huh? What if they required no care at all,......
Read Across America Day 2021: March 2nd, 2021 In 1998, the National Education Association started the United States’ largest celebration of reading, Read Across America. Read Across America’s primary purpose is “motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources that......