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Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association plans to hold a routine prescribed burn in the interior of Glennstone Nature Preserve on Wednesday March 10, 2021. The preserve will be closed for the duration of the burn. You may notice smoke in the preserve on the day of the burn and the trail entrances will be blocked when the burn is being conducted. Glennstone Preserve is home to a remnant Piedmont prairie which provides habitat for interesting and rare plants. By managing this preserve with controlled burns, we expect to see more plant and wildlife diversity return.
COVID-19 UPDATE (03/01/2021): All five of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association public preserves (17-Acre Wood, Glennstone, The Rocks, Pearl Mill, and Beaver Marsh) remain open. We hope you are able to explore some of them. If you do, please keep at least 6-feet from other trail users. We're in this creek together! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We started with the protection of one 6-acre preserve, and just over a decade later, we now own and manage 450 acres, including five public preserves. Three of our public preserves, 17-Acre Wood, Pearl Mill, and The Rocks, are located along paved, accessible greenways. All of our public preserves, except Glennstone, are located in easy walking distance from public bus stops. We are actively working to add more protected land in the near future, as well as create positive Green Infrastructure in the watershed to protect and improve water quality. ECWA's long-term goal is to establish a string of preserves from the creek's headwaters near Bennett Place to its terminus at Falls Lake. Our vision is a Durham where residents can simply walk or bike to a natural area from their home or place of business and can walk or bike across the watershed stopping at preserves, neighborhoods and points of interest along the way. |
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Watts-Hillandale Neighborhood
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The Association's first preserve, 17-Acre Wood actually covers 20 acres of floodplain forest. The trail and preserve serve as refuge for native plants rescued from development sites elsewhere in the watershed.
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Stadium Heights, Near Rocky Quarry Park
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The Rocks Nature Preserve is a 2-acre woodland along a scenic, rocky stretch of Ellerbe Creek. Named after its unique geology, The Rocks is special among ECWA nature preserves.
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Old North Durham and Duke Park Neighborhoods
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Pearl Mill Nature Preserve is part of a corridor of wetlands and floodplain woods that surround the East Branch of the South Ellerbe Creek.
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Colonial Village, Interstate 85 Corridor
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Located between Club Boulevard and Interstate 85, just behind Compare Foods off Roxboro Road, Beaver Marsh is a beautiful oasis of green in an otherwise highly urbanized environment.
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East Durham Glennstone Neighborhood
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Glennstone Nature Preserve is an 83-acre woodland with about three miles of walking trails that connect to Falls Lake Game Lands and Ellerbe Creek.
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Non-Public Nature Preserve
Veasey Farm
A 193-acre old farm that assists with filtering the water that runs into Falls Lake.
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