An aerial view of one of Warren Wilson’s restored campus streams running through the Farm. Photo by Pete Erb.
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Healthy Rivers, Healthy Ecosystem Warren Wilson College has finished an extensive project to restore 11,455 linear feet of campus streams back to their original meanders and natural courses. Many of the streams that run through the College’s current farm fields were
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channelized, tiled, and routed underground for agricultural purposes in the 1920s. Restoring them has improved water quality, created wildlife habitat, and provided educational opportunities for students. The project involved first reshaping the land to
