Green Fire illustrates Leopold’s continuing influence by exploring current projects that connect people and land at the local level. Viewers will meet urban children in Chicago learning about local foods and ecological restoration. They’ll learn about ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico who maintain healthy landscapes by working on their own properties and with their neighbors, in cooperative community conservation efforts, and they’ll meet wildlife biologists who are bringing back threatened and endangered species, from cranes to Mexican wolves, to the landscapes where they once thrived.

For the past 24 years, PAC has served as the local land trust for Polk County and surrounding areas in North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. The 501(c)(3) non-profit, grass roots organization is dedicated to protecting and conserving the area’s precious natural resources (PAC’s mission). PACs vision is a community living and growing in harmony with our natural resources and the goal is to provide a legacy that will endure and be valued by generations to come. PAC works with area landowners to ensure the long-term protection of their property through voluntary conservation easements. To date the organization has helped to protect over 8,400 acres of land in the area, and it has the support of over 1,500 community members. PAC works diligently to provide leadership to encourage conservation and provide education programs emphasizing native species appreciation and responsible land use practices to help save the places you love.

The Tryon Garden Club is the fourth oldest garden club in North Carolina, celebrating its 85th anniversary this year. A 501(c)(3) organization, members are active in preserving, protecting, and treasuring Pearson Falls, contributing to the beautification of Tryon, educating members and the community, and collaborating with others, fulfilling the organization’s mission to foster awareness and appreciation of the natural world. For more information about the Tryon Garden Club and Pearson’s Falls, please visit www.pearsonsfalls.org.

For more information, contact the Pacolet Area Conservancy at 828-859-5060 or info@pacolet.org or visit PAC’s website at www.pacolet.org.

– article submitted by Pam Torlina