Our Stories

by Mike and Liz Conroy Mike, Liz, and Laura Conroy visiting the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires in September of 2014. Photo by Liz...

Photo by Mark Huber Your individual donations flow together– just as small creeks form the Oconee, which then converges with other rivers...

by Sammy Pickering The eastern copperhead ( Agkistrodon contortrix ), a pit viper endemic to eastern North America, is one of my favorite...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Hike & Happy Hour on Saturday! We had a beautiful day to enjoy the fall colors at Sandy and...

by Steffney Thompson Photo courtesy of the University of Georgia School of Law After serving as ORLT's Executive Director for over 20...

This protected property that maintains the rural and scenic nature of south Jackson County is located just upstream along the North...

On Saturday last week, ORLT held a Butterfly Walk at Tallassee Forest Preserve, a 310 acre property on the Middle Oconee River owned by...

by ORLT Outreach Director Theresa Pippin ORLT Board Vice Chair Roger Nielsen presenting to the Georgia Soil & Water Conservation...

by ORLT Land Steward Issac Ostrom August can be a slow time for botany. It’s too early in the summer for late season composite flowers (...

by Douglas Tallamy (2021, Timber Press Inc., Portland, OR) Katydids (pp. 106-107) Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Katy...

by Sammy Pickering Along the channelized yet beautiful Shoal Creek, a tributary of the Oconee River, my parents Stella Guerrero and John...

Last month, several of our staff members attended the yearly Association of Georgia Land Trusts (AGLT) meeting generously hosted by the...

by Issac Ostrom Last year in the spring while I was still a volunteer with Oconee River Land Trust (ORLT), then Stewardship Director Dan...

This past February, the EPA adopted a revision of the Clean Air Act which lowers the permissible atmospheric particulate matter (PM) by...

by Dan Crescenzo Ninety-three percent of land in the state of Georgia is privately owned, as is most land east of the Mississippi River....

by Dan Crescenzo A few weeks ago I attended a workshop on wetlands protection hosted by UGA’s Land Conservation Clinic and the UGA River...

by Hadrien Turner Another early summer, and another Meriwether County conservation easement monitor trip in the books. While being out on...

Al and Kathy Parker on their conservation easement in Athens-Clarke County. If you have joined us on an ORLT member's hike, chances are...

With 30 Years of protecting beautiful waterways, forests, and farms ORLT has a lot to celebrate this Earth Day: To date, we have...

We say thumbs down to invasive species! Photo by Sarah Evans. On February 17th, ORLT members, staff, and volunteers met at the Orange...