{"id":76844,"date":"2024-12-27T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=76844"},"modified":"2024-12-27T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T00:44:45","slug":"conservation-conserving-carolina-celebrates-the-power-beauty-of-a-newly-restored-floodplain-at-kings-bridge-wildlife-conservation-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/outdoors\/conservation-conserving-carolina-celebrates-the-power-beauty-of-a-newly-restored-floodplain-at-kings-bridge-wildlife-conservation-area\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Conservation:<\/strong> Conserving Carolina Celebrates the Power, Beauty of a Newly Restored Floodplain at Kings Bridge Wildlife Conservation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76846\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76846\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76846\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-IMG_3236-John-Henry-Nelson-Kiko-Salazar-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1004\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Henry Nelson. Photo by Kiko Salazar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before Hurricane Helene, Conserving Carolina completed an 87-acre floodplain restoration project along the French Broad River in Mills River. The Kings Bridge property was initially purchased by Conserving Carolina before being transferred to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC), who now manages it as a Wildlife Conservation Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFloodplain connectivity projects like the Kings Bridge site in the French Broad River watershed promote habitat complexity, increase species diversity, enhance water quality and reduce erosion and sedimentation,\u201d says Scott Loftis, mountain region aquatic habitat coordinator with the NCWRC. \u201cThese large-scale landscape projects restore and conserve natural areas, allowing biological communities to flourish and contributing to the uplift in ecosystem services within the watershed that ultimately benefit human communities through cleaner water, green spaces and the opportunity to maintain contact with the natural world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76847\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76847\" class=\"wp-image-76847\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2-1024x899.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2-768x674.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2-810x711.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Conservation-Kings-Bridge-Holshouser-dapper-kestrel3-1-copy-2-1140x1000.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kestrel. Photo by Nick Holshouser<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The recently completed project includes a 35-acre wetland, 50 acres of reforestation and a fish habitat slough designed to support species like the muskellunge, a predator fish on the brink of extinction. \u201cThe restoration projects add niche ecosystems back to the land,\u201d says John Henry Nelson, owner of the Mills River environmental construction company Stone and Spade. \u201cWe are planting native shrubs and trees to reforest the area into a natural floodplain forest. With dense vegetation and good access trails, we create a good balance with restoring the land and providing access for nature lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone and Spade is also facilitating Conserving Carolina\u2019s partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) at Kings Bridge. \u201cStone and Spade propagated rivercane, yellowroot and planted white oak for the craftsman and artisan of the EBCI,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cAll these plants are traditionally used by Cherokee. The rivercane is used for baskets, blowguns, building materials and more. The yellowroot is medicinal and has burberines that are potent dyes used for basket dyeing.\u201d Rivercane also serves as an excellent streambank stabilizer, making this area even more resilient.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring natural floodplains has a direct, quantifiable impact on how our region weathers extreme events like Helene. Engineer Greg Jennings calculated that three of Conserving Carolina\u2019s natural floodplain restoration sites\u2014Kings Bridge, Mud Creek and Pleasant Grove\u2014stored at least 1.25 billion gallons of water from Helene. It\u2019s likely that the localized storm damage would have been significantly worse if these floodplain projects had not been completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestoration sites are very important because they are designed to allow water to flood the site in a harmonious way that gives the water more room to spread out over the space,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cThe slowing of water allows the sediment to fall out and deposit on the land in a way that\u2019s healthy for the ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kings Bridge is currently closed to allow the newly planted flora to become established, but the area will eventually be open to the public for fishing, birding and other wildlife observation. Nelson reports that there is already an abundance of waterfowl, Bald Eagles, hawks, Ospreys, herons, kingfishers and songbirds in the area\u2014a testament to the immediate and tangible value of this newly restored natural space.<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more and stay updated about the Kings Bridge reopening at <a href=\"http:\/\/ConservingCarolina.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ConservingCarolina.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before Hurricane Helene, Conserving Carolina completed an 87-acre floodplain restoration project along the French Broad River in Mills River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":76846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76844","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 - 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