Stories

Camping With Cradle

The Camping With Cradle outdoor mentoring program is a means for young adults to become more familiar with the outdoors. The program is designed as a group mentoring model; each outing will allow a group of approximately 6-8 youth to experience an outdoor trip.  SHARE Charlotte spoke with Dr. Keith Cradle, Executive Director of this program, to learn more about its impact on our community, in our #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors series.

Eagle Rock Camp

Eagle Rock Camp is a family saving, suicide prevention organization that serves at-risk veteran and military families.

Today's highlight for #SpotlightOnCLT Great Outdoors is Eagle Rock Camp.  More than helping Charlotteans get outside, they are changing the lives of military families.  Read below for some incredible impact stories on how they are healing kids, teens and parents with the 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        

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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

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.

Sustain Charlotte

North Carolina Wildlife Federation

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