https://bolincreek.org/blog Protecting Our Bolin Creek Watershed Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:02:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bolincreek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-FOBCLogo_Icon-32x32.png https://bolincreek.org/blog 32 32 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2025/02/10/improve-biking-connections-while-we-protect-our-streams/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2025/02/10/improve-biking-connections-while-we-protect-our-streams/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:48:35 +0000 https://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=5832 Bolin Creek Bikeway Extension.  We want to improve biking connections, but not in riparian areas along stressed streams.  The Town of Chapel Hill is asking for input on the proposed “Bolin Creek Greenway Extension” route. The existing Bolin Creek Greenway runs from the Chapel Hill Community Center and ends at Umstead Park. The planned extension […]

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The post Friends of Bolin Creek Picnic first appeared on Friends of Bolin Creek.]]> https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/10/22/friends-of-bolin-creek-picnic/feed/ 0 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/07/21/friends-of-bolin-creek-voice-concerns-with-development-plans-for-coal-ash-site/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/07/21/friends-of-bolin-creek-voice-concerns-with-development-plans-for-coal-ash-site/#comments Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:11:39 +0000 https://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=5612 Chapel Hill proposes building a government services complex on the coal ash pile with minimal protective measures. We find the present agreement does not protect public health and the environment for the following reasons. The NC Dept of the Environment is taking comments on the plan until cob Tuesday, July 30 (not Wednesday, July 31, […]

The post Friends of Bolin Creek Voices Concerns with Development Plans for Coal Ash Site. first appeared on Friends of Bolin Creek.]]> https://bolincreek.org/blog/2024/07/21/friends-of-bolin-creek-voice-concerns-with-development-plans-for-coal-ash-site/feed/ 1 https://bolincreek.org/blog/2013/03/26/birders-rewarded/ https://bolincreek.org/blog/2013/03/26/birders-rewarded/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:22:35 +0000 http://bolincreek.org/blog/?p=2382 Birders from Friends of Bolin Creek and New Hope Audubon were rewarded on our March 3 bird walk with several sightings of the pileated woodpecker — on the ground pecking ants in old logs. Mary Sonis took this photo of the pileated on a tree in 2012.      

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