--- title: North Carolina (3) | Unique Places to Save description: North Carolina | Learn about our latest restoration & conservation efforts and discover how healthy land & aquatic resources benefit our communities across the US (3) image: https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/river%20flow%20healthy%20rivers%20dam%20removal.jpg --- [![Unique Places to Save logo](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/logo%20horizontal-1.png?width=1254&height=380&name=logo%20horizontal-1.png "Unique Places to Save logo")](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/) - [PROJECTS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/projects) - SERVICES - [FOR MITIGATION BANKERS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/conservation-mitigation) - [FOR LAND MANAGERS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/land-planners-managers) - [FOR LANDOWNERS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/conservation-for-landowners) - [FOR RESTORATION PARTNERS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/dam-removals) - ABOUT - [OUR GOALS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/our-goals) - [OUR VALUES](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/our-values) - [OUR TEAM](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/team) - [CONTACT US](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/contact) - UPDATES - [CONSERVATION EASEMENTS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-easements) - [MITIGATION BANKING](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) - [WORKING LANDS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/working-lands) - [RIVERS, WETLANDS & DAMS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/rivers-wetlands-dams) - [CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-and-development) - [CONSERVATION STORIES](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-stories) - [ORGANIZATION NEWS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/organization-news) - [ALL POSTS](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news) [Donate](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/wetland-keepers) [Donate](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/wetland-keepers) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # North Carolina (3) Learn about our latest restoration & conservation efforts and discover how healthy land & aquatic resources benefit our communities across the US ![service 1 d](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/Image%20Dividers/service%201%20d.png) ![service 1 m](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/Image%20Dividers/service%201%20m.png)   [All posts](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news) [Conservation Easements](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-easements) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) [Working Lands](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/working-lands) [Rivers, Wetlands & Dams](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/rivers-wetlands-dams) [Conservation & Development](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-and-development) [Conservation Stories](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-stories) [Organization News](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/organization-news) [![A rolling pasture with patches of eroded red clay, bare trees and a power line behind.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20green%20mesa%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20green%20mesa%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/green-mesa-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025 ### [Green Mesa | Conservation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/green-mesa-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 32.5 Project Year 2023 Located in Yadkin County NC The Green Mesa Conservation Easement is a restoration project by Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) located within the Yadkin River Basin of North Carolina. This project foc... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/green-mesa-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A pond covered in bright green duckweed, ringed by summer woodland under a blue sky.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20flat%20rock%20conservation%20easement%20nc.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20flat%20rock%20conservation%20easement%20nc.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/flat-rock-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025 ### [Flat Rock | Conservation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/flat-rock-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 67.9 Project Year 2023 Located in Guilford County North Carolina The Flat Rock Conservation Easement is a mitigation project within the Cape Fear River Basin. As part of the Wildlands Engineering's Umbrella Mitigation Bank, this... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/flat-rock-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A green crop field seen beyond a scrubby ditch and bare shrubs under a cloudy sky.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20cox%20pond%20conservation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20cox%20pond%20conservation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cox-pond-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025 ### [Cox Pond | Conservation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cox-pond-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 24.3 Project Year 2022 Located in Wayne County North Carolina The Cox Pond Conservation Easement is a 24-acre mitigation project by Wildlands Engineering Inc in Wayne County, North Carolina, designed to restore riparian buffers ... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cox-pond-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A pasture edge with a large bare tree and winter woodland under a clear blue sky.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/bandit%20farms%20conservation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=bandit%20farms%20conservation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bandit-farms-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, February 2025 ### [Bandit Farms | Conservation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bandit-farms-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 17.5 Project Year 2023 Located in Orange County NC The Bandit Farms Conservation Easement is a 17-acre project by RestorEcology dedicated to protecting and restoring critical riparian and wetland areas in the Upper New Hope Arm ... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bandit-farms-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![Scrub and bare trees along the edge of a green field under a blue sky.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20beaver%20tail.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20beaver%20tail.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/beaver-tail-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025 ### [Beaver Tail | Conservation Mitigation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/beaver-tail-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 34.4 Project Year 2024 Located in Lincoln County NC Unique Places to Save’s conservation easement over the Beaver Tail mitigation bank helped to permanently protect a successfully restored tributary to Howard’s Creek and include... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/beaver-tail-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A green field beside bare winter woodland, with a ditch line running between them.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20brooks%20swamp%20conservation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20brooks%20swamp%20conservation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/brooks-swamp-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025 ### [Brooks Swamp | Conservation Mitigation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/brooks-swamp-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 11.1 Project Year 2024 Located in Wayne County NC The Brooks Swamp conservation easement project has preserved multiple mitigation goals of enhancing water quality and ecological health in streams through the restoration and exp... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/brooks-swamp-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A mown strip beside young planted trees and a stream, under a cloudy sky.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20proctor%20dairy%20conservation%20easement%20catawba%20county.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20proctor%20dairy%20conservation%20easement%20catawba%20county.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/proctor-dairy-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025 ### [Proctor Dairy | Conservation Mitigation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/proctor-dairy-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 22.9 Project Year 2024 Located in Catawba County NC The permanent conservation of Wildland’s Proctor Dairy stream and wetland mitigation project will protect the enhancement of ecological integrity and water quality within the L... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/proctor-dairy-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A shallow ford where a stream crosses a dirt track between trees, with pasture beyond.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/photo%20of%20bootstrap%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=photo%20of%20bootstrap%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bootstrap-conservation-mitigation-bank) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025 ### [Bootstrap Wetland Mitigation Bank](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bootstrap-conservation-mitigation-bank) Total Acres 40.6 Project Year 2024 Located in Bessemer City NC Bootstrap is a mitigation bank that has overall goals to improve stream and riparian wetland function through stream restoration and riparian buffer re-vegetation over approxima... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/bootstrap-conservation-mitigation-bank) [![A creek running between grassy banks, with summer woodland and dead vines along the far side.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/hatch%20hill%20nc%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg?width=900&name=hatch%20hill%20nc%20conservation%20mitigation%20easement.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/hatchs-hill-conservation-mitigation) [Mitigation Banking](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/mitigation-banking) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, August 2024 ### [Hatch's Hill | Conservation Mitigation Easement](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/hatchs-hill-conservation-mitigation) Total Acres 65.9 Project Year 2024 Located in Wayne County NC The Hatch’s Hill Conservation Easement is located on active farms used for cropland and pasture for goats, donkeys, and alpaca. The 56.2‐acre conservation easement includes multi... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/hatchs-hill-conservation-mitigation) [![A young longleaf pine in its grass stage standing in an open pine savanna of wiregrass.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/1.jpeg?width=900&name=1.jpeg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/boiling-spring-press-release) [Organization News](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/organization-news) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Nathan Phillips, February 2024 ### [Boiling Spring Wilderness Receives the Third Largest Grant in NC](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/boiling-spring-press-release) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3rd Largest Grant in 2023 Awarded By State to Fund Conservation of 978 Acres of Boiling Spring Wilderness The North Carolina Land and Water Fund Board of Trustees voted on Wednesday, September 20th to award Unique Plac... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/boiling-spring-press-release) [![Concept plan for Cates Farm Park, mapping trails, conservation easements, wildflower meadows, a renovated barn event space and parking over an aerial view of the site.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/Cates-Farm-Concept-V2.png?width=900&name=Cates-Farm-Concept-V2.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cates-farm-farmland-conservation) [Conservation & Development](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-and-development) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, February 2024 ### [Cate's Farm Farmland Conservation](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cates-farm-farmland-conservation) Unique Places to Save partnered with the City of Mebane to assist with their master planning process that garnered community input for this remarkable rural property as part of their park concept. Unique Places to Save partnered with the Ci... [Read more ![](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hubfs/arrow-right%20copy.png)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/cates-farm-farmland-conservation) [![A view from a rocky outcrop across rolling forested hills in spring.](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Rockey+Face+View+of+Box+Creek+watershed.jpg?width=900&name=Rockey+Face+View+of+Box+Creek+watershed.jpg)](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/box-creek-wilderness-land-preservation) [Conservation Stories](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/tag/conservation-stories) ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Nathan Phillips, February 2024 ### [Box Creek Wilderness Land Preservation](https://uniqueplacestosave.org/news/box-creek-wilderness-land-preservation) Unique Places To Save Provided Online Technology to Help Prevent a Power Line Over One of the Largest Natural Heritage Areas in North Carolina Unique Places To Save conducted an online outreach and education campaign in coordination with ou... 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