The stand of chestnut and scarlet oaks on my 140-acre mountainside tract in the Sinking Creek Valley of Craig County, Va. spoke volumes about the devastation that gypsy moths can wreak. Three of the chestnut oaks stood like gaunt, lifeless sentinels ...

The Conservation Trust for North Carolina is "a land trust that focuses mostly on the Blue Ridge Parkway , although we also help the 23 other land trusts that exist all over the state," says CTNC executive director Reid Wilson. "We lobby for them, manage...