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Thanks very much to all who submitted questions and comments to me directly or at www.triangleland.org. Yesterday, we posted at the link above TLC’s Q&A Forum.

I am excited about the dialogue that has begun, and TLC staff and volunteers are working to set up additional gatherings to discuss conservation and preservation further.

Kind regards,

Kevin Brice
President
Triangle Land Conservancy

Posted by KevinB]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:58:03 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Norman Budnitz]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:58:14 -0400 Indy Week Thanks for your account of the Irvin Farm matter. I also remember that you helped us build the foot bridge at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve.
Posted by woodlandsteward]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:12:06 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Reid Wilson]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:43:37 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Hayden T.]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:33:09 -0400 Indy Week Posted by MichaelB]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:40:35 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Joan]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:43:12 -0400 Indy Week Posted by KeepInformed]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:42:29 -0400 Indy Week
The argument is not about weather or not "managed" forests is the right way to go, it is about weather or not the organization is transparent about their intentions of how they use donors money.
Posted by tboz]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:09:20 -0400 Indy Week
I would also urge the organization to consider creating a better balance of board members by including ecologists, biologists, and other scientists not directly tied to real estate development and lumber interests.
Posted by Sharon Zeigler]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:50:19 -0400 Indy Week
Dear Editor:

Laura Herbst's article, "Deep Cuts" (Independent (10/12/11) gave an unfair portrayal of modern forest management. The article is a general criticism of the Triangle Land Conservancy's (TLC) policy of harvesting trees on its land holdings.
Posted by KevinB]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:02:43 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Jennifer Goodell]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:40:45 -0400 Indy Week Posted by tjwrightjr]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:29:14 -0400 Indy Week Posted by nh]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:10:26 -0400 Indy Week http://www.triangleland.org/blog/?p=647

The TLC defends itself

http://triangleland.org/news/TLCResponseto… <--- Full Response
Posted by cbboot]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:55:16 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Alex Johnson]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:44:54 -0400 Indy Week http://www.triangleland.org/about/bricehir…. I, for one, am very glad that the guy who heads up my local land trust knows something about business and finance.

Posted by Joan]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:45:43 -0400 Indy Week first of all, I am not a "logging contractor", and I was not working on a percentage. Moreover, I had been a volunteer at TLC for about 15 years before I ever got a paying job harvesting timber on TLC land.
Posted by woodlandsteward]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:45:20 -0400 Indy Week
Laura Herbst deserves our collective thanks for demonstrating how journalists can play an active role in challenging corruption and protecting our institutions and resources. She revealed some serious and significant issues with an organization that claims it’s doing one thing while doing the opposite.

Claims of other commenters in support of selective logging and forest management are surely well-intentioned, while clearly coming from people who do not know the science and important details about effective forest management practices.
Posted by Environmental Educator]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:18:58 -0400 Indy Week Sorry to come in late on this conversation. Could you tell us more about your funding from the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute?
Posted by Annie Hikes]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:21:35 -0400 Indy Week 2) I am acquainted with Kevin Bryce (TLC) and Jerry Gaertner (North State Forestry), and know them both to be people of integrity, not given to cloaked agendas, vested interests, or greed.
3) The more I read the article, the more I feel it is a meticulously engineered form of "Gotcha" Journalism.

This Evening, I hiked (first time) at White Pines Reserve, down to the Rocky and Deep Rivers; AMAZING !
Posted by stuartfp]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:39:22 -0400 Indy Week Posted by Michelle Moorman]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:18:34 -0400 Indy Week http://www.triangleland.org/lands/planning…

This was the work the TLC did for Preston development that troubled me. Essentially Preston got a great deal on their environmental assessment that preston has to do by law anyway and got the #1 group that should be opposing a 6000 acre mega development to support them in public forums. The strategy of engagement is one thing but I was notably troubled by this.
Posted by SL]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:16:19 -0400 Indy Week
The science in the article comes from experts. Conveying a variety of opinions was an important part of my job as a journalist.
Posted by lherbst]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:52:08 -0400 Indy Week Posted by SL]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:35:29 -0400 Indy Week