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Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust

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Protecting the quality of the air you breathe, the water you drink and healthy habitat for all who live here.

HCLT is fully accredited and dedicated to saving important natural resources in Southern Macon and Jackson Counties.

10/14/2026

Come get your cozy autumn calm on!

There are still a few spots left at our Forest Bathing event to this Saturday Oct 17 at Trillium Creek Trail near Glenville NC.

FREE! RSVP at hcltnc.org/events

10/14/2026

Andrew Renfro, our Conservation Director, was recently interviewed at HCLT's public access property, Sunset Rock, and featured in Elevate magazine. Visit the site below to read the full article on 'flagging.' Renfro explains that leaves often time their changing color in the fall to broadcast an important message to migrating birds and local wildlife. https://online.flippingbook.com/view/265606284/32/

10/05/2026

Check out this month’s article by our Stewardship Intern, Maia Wilde!

As autumn settles in, orb-weaver spiders spin spectacular webs across local forests and gardens.

09/28/2026

Join us tonight (9/28) at 5:30pm at McKinney Meadow in Cashiers for a fun and satisfying evening of native wild seed collection with Jessica Blackburn.

FREE! Find details and RSVP at www.hcltnc.org/events.
DROP-INS WELCOME!

09/26/2026

FREE! RSVP at hcltnc.org/events

Join Yoga Practitioner and Somatic Therapist Ashlyn Miller for an evening slowdown, connecting with yourself, others, and nature to cultivate a felt sense of belonging. Our time together will include a slow sensory walk, somatic inquiry, gentle yoga and meditation, nature journaling, and story.

A sense of belonging is a basic need we have as human beings, and while it may be inherent on some level, it demands participation to be truly felt. And place/land is a gentle, intuitive entry point as humans have lived in relationship with land since the dawn of humanity.

“You can learn to belong anywhere…if you choose. It’s an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it’s also an act of love.” -Sharon Blackie

09/25/2026

What’s the Highlands - Cashiers Land Trust up to?

We’re out here cultivating a reciprocal relationship with nature by hosting free and public concerts on the lands we love and strive to know more deeply. Here, Topher Stephens, local musician and education and outreach coordinator performs songs inspired by his childhood growing up along Caney Fork in Tuckaseegee.

Author Robin Wall Kimmerer states “all flourishing is mutual” and “Humans are not separate from or above nature; we belong to a shared web of life where the well-being of every species depends on the well-being of others.”

We hope you can gather with us at a future event to celebrate this place we call home!

08/26/2026

A local effort between Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust and Open Space Institute (OSI) has permanently protected 990 acres — critical headwaters and habitat in one of Jackson County's largest remaining intact forested landscapes. Together, the organizations are protecting some of the area's most important landscapes with the goals of strengthening habitat connectivity, protecting water resources, expanding public access to nature, and ensuring that future generations can benefit from western North Carolina's spectacular scenic beauty and natural heritage. In the near future, this preserve, known as Trout Creek, will provide incredible outdoor recreation activities in a part of Jackson County that lacks such facilities.

08/18/2026

Join us tonight 8/18 from 5:30-6:30pm at The Village Green in Cashiers to welcome Brett Treadway from The Center for Native Health (CNH).
Brett will be presenting on Indigenous Stewardship and sharing about the amazing projects and initiatives The CNH supports which prioritize culturally grounded conservation, intergenerational sharing of traditional ecological knowledge, and protection of tribal resources and homelands.

Address

348 South 5th Street
Highlands, NC
28741

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+18285261111

Website

https://linktr.ee/highlandscashierslandtrust

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