Land Protection: Beale Family Properties

Blue Ridge Conservancy depends on the help of our volunteers.

Whether it’s picking up trash on BRC’s “Adopt A Highway,” doing trail maintenance, giving expertise in the office, or helping weed out invasive plants on our properties, we get by with a little help from our friends.

The last few years have been a safety and scheduling challenge, but with the opening of the Conservation Campus, we have more need than ever for help. If you haven’t already, sign up for our volunteer list today!

BRC“adopted”aportionofAhoRdthroughtheNCDOTAdopt-A-Highwayprogram, and volunteers help clean the road. Throughout the year BRC hosts volunteer workdays forcleaning,planting,mulching,andsprucingup theConservationCampus.

“Blue Ridge Conservancy’s work to conserve natural resources throughout the High Country is both comprehensive and essential. I volunteer for BRC because I wholeheartedly believe in their mission, and the staff and board are all extremely dedicated and committed to these goals - it truly is a remarkable organization.” - Gina Diggs,

BRC Volunteer and High Country Audubon Society liaison

“I love working with Blue Ridge Conservancy because they save the places we love in the High Country but even more than that, I love working with the BRC staff to save the places we love. I have worked and volunteered with a handful of nonprofits over the last few years and I have never met a team like the folks at BRC. Their energy and passion for the work they do is contagious.

Gus, awesome office dog And whether you’re volunteering or participating in an event you can feel that energy they bring into everything they do. Though the land they’re saving is SO important, the relationships they’re creating and the people they are helping fall in love with the spaces and critters they’re hoping to protect is invaluable. If you have the opportunity, volunteer with this great organization, it will change your life. Plus, it’s also really fun to work with their awesome office dogs.” - Tristan Thomas, Artist and volunteer extraordinaire

Naturalists Volunteering Their Talents

Naturalist Paul Laurent leads a group from BRC and HC Audubon on Peak Mtn.

BRC is fortunate to have the help of experienced naturalists to identify and catalogue species at the Conservation Campus and Peak Mountain. Paul and Amanda Laurent of Epic Nature Tours have led groups on salamander walks on rainy nights and hawk watches on sunny days. Paul also works with the High Country Audubon Society, and had the Campus designated as an eBird site (Learn more about this project to the right).

Max Ramey has also been instrumental in assessing the flora and fauna of the campus. So far he has observed 21 species of arthropods, gastropods, salamanders, mammals, and birds that call BRC home.

Naturalist Max Ramey has spent many hours at the ConservationCampuscatalogingspecies.

A free mobile bird cataloging app, eBird is among the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed annually. Visit ebird.org to learn more and download.