South Yellow Mountain Preserve: Park Greer Reveals The Work And Wonder Behind Protecting A Rare Appalachian Preserve
About this episode
Park Greer shares insights on the efforts to protect the South Yellow Mountain Preserve and the challenges faced during the process.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I sit down with South Yellow Mountain Preserve manager Park Greer to share the full, behind-the-scenes story: the surprise Earth Day donation, the eight months of deed work and surveying across a 33-mile boundary, and the careful plan that turned a generous transfer into a resilient, living landscape. Park brings a rare mix of park ranger experience and land surveying chops, and it shows. He walks us through the amphibolite bedrock that fuels calcium-rich soi...
People in this episode
Host: Mike Andress
Guest: Park Greer
Topics covered
- conservation
- land management
- Appalachian culture
- environmental protection
- park ranger experience
Keywords
- South Yellow Mountain Preserve
- Park Greer
- Earth Day donation
- land surveying
- amphibolite bedrock
Mentioned in this episode
Places: South Yellow Mountain Preserve, Appalachian
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