Land for Tomorrow: A coalition to guard North Carolina's natural and cultural resources

I ran into a link to this site over at Hillbilly Savants...Go check them out. Maybe they can keep the North Carolina Mountain Dream alive until I get there.

Land for Tomorrow is a statewide partnership of conservationists, farmers, business leaders, local governments, health professionals, and community groups urging the General Assembly to provide $1 billion over five years to protect the state's land, water, and special places before they are irreversibly lost.

Protecting North Carolina’s critical land will provide:

• Clean drinking water
• Clean air
• Thriving farms and forests
• Places to hunt, fish and watch wildlife
• Places to exercise and enjoy the beauty of North Carolina
• Less damage from flooding
• Places of historic significance and ecological value
• Preservation of North Carolina’s natural and cultural heritage
• Strengthened communities
• Jobs and a sustainable economy

Source: Land for Tomorrow: A coalition to guard North Carolina's natural and cultural resources

America's Roadside Bloomery

It's been a while since Fred First came up with this idea...contest? So I thought I'd throw out another mention just to see if I could push it about a bit...

It would be neat for contributors from all over the country to offer their images to an aggregate gallery called Unplanted Gardens: America's Roadside Bloomery, I thought. And here it is!

All images should include in their composition a road of some kind, just to place it, and then the wildflowers that grow there unplanted. Highway department wildflower beds don't count.

Each image should be 72 dpi, max size of 800 pixels on the largest side. Information should minimally include the location, if possible some ID on the flowers, and any other pertinent or interesting information. Please give your image files descriptive names, e.g., BlackEyesSusan.jpg. or Virginia_Backroads.jpg

Go check out the rest of the requirements and check out the submissions at America's Roadside Bloomery - powered by SmugMug. When you send in a shot, tell him Gary sent ya...

Here's the shot of mine he chose to highlight...