Posts by Kevin Massey
Best Photos of Spring & Summer 2020
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Wild South continues to stand by the South’s wild places. As record numbers of people enjoy public lands, the extra wear and tear is real. Adapting…
Read MoreOur Favorite Photos from Winter 2020
Winter may be the dormant season but there’s nothing dormant about Wild South! Many conservation activities are best when there are fewer flowers, snakes, and ticks!
Read MoreSomething in Common
Many different people passionately enjoy, value, and protect our public lands. Sometimes they seem so different from each other that it would be impossible for them to agree on anything.…
Read MoreIt Takes a Village to Raise a Tire
This winter Wild South helped the Linville Gorge Wilderness community clean up trash below Wiseman’s View. All was going well until someone found four 350-lb tires thrown off the overlook…
Read MoreClean-up at Linville Falls Plunge Basin, Feb. 12
Volunteers cleaned up some nasty stuff today at the otherwise beautiful plunge basin of Linville Falls in North Carolina. (Photos: Scott Campbell and Nicholas Massey)
Read MoreTurkey Creek Nature Preserve Clean Up Day
Today an army of volunteers and preserve rangers removed nearly 100 tires, 80+ bags of trash and countless random items from the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. Phenomenal teamwork!
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 29
Linville Gorge volunteers braved the cold today to carry the last cache of flood plain tires and trash miles south to the wilderness boundary. (Photos: David Wheeler, Nicholas Massey,…
Read MoreJanuary Privet Pull
Today a tenacious team of volunteers pulled invasive privet and cleared deadfall in the Sipsey.
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 17
There must be something to it. These people love their wilderness! Volunteers picked up more tires and flood debris today in Linville Gorge. (Photos: Nicholas Massey & Terry Smith)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 15
The team is at it again! Today volunteers collected tires washed into the wilderness during a flood in the 1970’s. (Photos: David Wheeler & Nicholas Massey)
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