Author: Betsy Burdett | The Tryon Daily Bulletin

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

Don’t sell your land

I don’t know about you, but I sometimes ask myself questions that I can’t answer. Like “Why does ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

Five words worth more than ten dollars

Many years ago, when our children were young, we received a postcard from one of their Sunday school ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

The telephone call from Charlie Fears

A few nights ago, when Allen and I were with friends eating dinner at the Purple Onion, I ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

The truth always comes out

A few days ago, a group of us Saluda Community Land Trust volunteers spent a morning cleaning up ... Read more

Columnists

It all has to start with a dream

Conservation easements are really not as difficult to understand as you might think at first. We all tend ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

The basket that found its way home

This month’s Corner is more about relationships and connections than it is about nature, but in a way, ... Read more

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Guatemala is different

While you all were in the midst of the election at the beginning of November, I was on ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

Water runs downhill

This will be the shortest Conservation Corner I’ve ever written. It concerns the fact that we hear lots ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

What can we do?

I am starting this month’s column with a very depressing quote from author and theologian Brian McLaren. “Our ... Read more

Conservation Corner - Betsy Burdett

“Why?”

Yesterday, I was walking in Holbert Cove on a trail along the edge of the Gamelands. The trail ... Read more