Ellerbe Creek Notes

20 years after its founding, the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association threw a party as part of its annual meeting. They invited me to addres...

There are many origins for a creek and for a watershed association. To a considerable extent, the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association began ...

A creek has many beginnings, many tributaries that feed it, and so does a watershed association like ECWA. Some of those "tributaries...

Founded in 1999, ECWA turns 20 this year. In recognition, the story of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association's founding and early y...

Update: The rezoning request was defeated, providing a reprieve of uncertain duration for this oasis of beauty and biological diversity in ...

In 2000, a year after the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association was established, ECWA board member Chad Hallyburton, who was working at the ...

The nicest entryway into ECWA's 82 acre nature preserve at the Glennstone development is next to one of the sediment ponds that catch...

Up Shoccoree Drive, in the headwaters of Ellerbe Creek, a beautiful prairie stretches beneath the three WDNC radio towers visible as you ent...

Here is an exhilarating but scary detective story about a pretty but ecologically dangerous plant. After finding Lesser Celandine (Ranunculu...

If you drive west on Hillsborough Road, past the Durham city reservoir, glance towards the reservoir and you will see a special but largely ...

While visiting Durham this past week, I was driving through the Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood when I saw a blaze of yellow and thou...

Painted buckeye is a native shrub common on the low bluffs overlooking Ellerbe Creek at Glennstone. It blooms in early April.

Walking along the trails of ECWA's nature preserve at Glennstone, downstream from Durham, out towards Falls Lake, you will find many wil...