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Partners for Parks: #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors

Partners for Parks


Taking cues from similar events around the country and the world, Open Streets 704 aims to build a better, healthier, connected community by encouraging Charlotte and Mecklenburg area residents to walk, bicycle, and experience the city together in a way that’s just not possible in a car.

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Catawba Lands Conservancy: #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors


Catawba Lands        

Our #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors series highlight today is all about the Catawba Lands Conservancy!  We chatted with Jennifer Clark from CLC all about how this great nonprofit makes an impact right here in our backyard.
 

What would you like the community to know about the challenges your organization is trying to solve?

Carolina Raptor Center: #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors


Carolina Raptor Center

Charlotte is lucky to be home to the Carolina Raptor Center, a busy nonprofit located in Huntersville.  The Raptor Center is home and hospital to over 97 birds of prey.  This year, with the outbreak of Avian Bird Flu, the Raptor Center had to close its door to incoming birds.  Learn more about this incredible nonprofit and how they rose to the challenge to help birds of prey today and for the future.

TreesCharlotte: #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors


TreesCharlotte

Charlotte is known as “The City of Trees” thanks to our city’s remarkable tree canopy. TreesCharlotte actively plants and gives away trees to ensure the continued health and well-being of our canopy and to account for on-going growth and development in our city. Trees clean our air, reduce stormwater run-off, cool our streets, reduce energy usage in our homes, increase property values, and give us beauty.

UNC Botanical Gardens #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors

UNC Botanical Gardens

Today's #SpotlightOnCLT brings us to the great outdoors at UNC Botanical Gardens.  Its mission is to inspire a love for nature and plants through programming, classes, and displays.  The gardens are free and open to the public, but also offer low-cost classes and tours for children and adults.  In 2018, the Gardens had two Titan Arums bloom in the greenhouse, a rare sight in the world's botanical gardens.  We spoke with Christen Hoover to learn more about the gardens, and their impact on the community.
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