{"id":76774,"date":"2024-12-21T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=76774"},"modified":"2024-12-21T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:23:09","slug":"conservation-a-champion-for-the-southern-blue-ridge-kelly-holdbrooks-of-southern-highlands-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/outdoors\/conservation-a-champion-for-the-southern-blue-ridge-kelly-holdbrooks-of-southern-highlands-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Conservation:<\/strong> A Champion for the Southern Blue Ridge ~ Kelly Holdbrooks of Southern Highlands Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Holdbrooks, executive director of the nonprofit Southern Highlands Reserve, has dedicated her career to conserving one of the most biologically rich and threatened ecosystems in the country: the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. The Southern Highlands Reserve is a 120-acre private botanical garden and research center that specializes in protecting endangered plant species and preparing landscapes to adapt to a changing climate. \u201cI love being a part of educating the public about the importance of native plants and the ecosystems,\u201d says Holdbrooks.<\/p>\n<p>Situated at 4,500 feet elevation on the Blue Ridge Escarpment, the Reserve faces unique environmental challenges, including 80 to 130 inches of rain annually. \u201cWe\u2019re very used to intense storm events,\u201d says Holdbrooks, \u201cand over the last 15 years, they have astronomically increased in their intensity due to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76776\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76776\" class=\"wp-image-76776\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-20230920_027-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Holdbrooks. Photo courtesy of Southern Highlands Reserve<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Reserve implements a careful approach to manage these risks, including stormwater mitigation efforts, canopy relief and a thorough arbor care program. \u201cWe\u2019ve just been applying different best management practices, and between Fred and Helene, we weathered both of those storms with just minor blowouts that took maybe a day to fix,\u201d says Holdbrooks.<\/p>\n<p>A core focus of Kelly\u2019s leadership at Southern Highlands Reserve has been the red spruce propagation program, a part of the Southern Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (SASRI), a collaborative effort with the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy and other conservation partners. The red spruce tree, once prevalent across the southern Appalachians, is crucial to the survival of the region\u2019s rare spruce-fir forests, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the United States. \u201cWe propagate all of the red spruce trees that get planted on public land,\u201d says Holdbrooks. The Reserve\u2019s program has already planted more than 6,000 trees with a goal of planting hundreds of thousands. \u201cWe\u2019re just getting started, but we have a 90 percent success rate on our plantings in the wild,\u201d says Holdbrooks. \u201cThat gives me hope that we\u2019re going to be able to restore the spruce-fir forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education is another vital component of Holdbrooks\u2019 vision for the Reserve. \u201cThere is a key component of education that gardens play in the public realm and I think we\u2019ve kind of lost that a little bit as we\u2019ve jumped into this century,\u201d she says. \u201cMy hope is that Southern Highlands Reserve and all the other gardens that we partner with can play a bigger role in public education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A newly built greenhouse, realized with the help of $2.2 million in grants and donations, will allow the Reserve to increase the scale of its red spruce propagation efforts exponentially, and also grow native plants for other restoration projects. \u201cIt will be a big component of the conservation education we provide,\u201d says Holdbrooks, \u201cas visitors will be able to see first-hand how to implement green stormwater mitigation with systems that feed into our rain garden and mountain bog.\u201d The Reserve is still fundraising for this project, with $500,000 still needed to meet its goal.<\/p>\n<p>Holdbrooks\u2019 work recently earned her recognition from Garden &amp; Gun as a 2024 Champion of Conservation. \u201cIt is one of my wildest dreams to be doing this work,\u201d she says, \u201cand then to be recognized is just an incredible honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ecological and intrinsic importance of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains is at the core of Holdbrooks\u2019 personal and professional drive. \u201cOther than the Amazon, we are the most biologically diverse area on the planet,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty big deal. All of us self-select to be here for lots of reasons, but I think the natural environment is sort of baked into who we are in our DNA and we\u2019re drawn to it. I want to find ways to help conserve this area and the species that inhabit it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/SouthernHighlandsReserve.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SouthernHighlandsReserve.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Holdbrooks, executive director of the nonprofit Southern Highlands Reserve, has dedicated her career to conserving one of the most biologically rich and threatened ecosystems in the country: the southern Blue Ridge Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":76776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-outdoors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conservation: A Champion for the Southern Blue Ridge ~ Kelly Holdbrooks of Southern Highlands Reserve - 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