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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 30/09/2026

When we say protected forever, we mean it legally. A conservation easement is a permanent agreement that stays with the land through every future owner. The creek is safe not just now, but for good.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 28/09/2026

The Ramseur dam was built in the early 1900s, largely of river rock, to power a sawmill and later a manufacturing plant. It hasn't made power in a long time. Its gates broke. It seeped. It sat there splitting the Deep River in two for more than a century. It's out now.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 25/09/2026

It’s hard to believe these were once corn and soybean fields. 🌱 The transformation goes far beyond what we can see. Restored stream channels and floodplains are helping reduce erosion and runoff, slow high water, and keep wetlands hydrated, all while creating healthier habitat.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 23/09/2026

Turn on your tap. That water started as rain on land upstream, gathered into a creek, a river, a reservoir. The health of that land is the health of your water. Protecting it upstream is the most cost effective filter there is.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 22/09/2026

76 acres along Deep Creek in Perquimans County, NC, restoring the small waterways that feed the Pasquotank. 17 acres of wetlands, protected forever. uniqueplacestosave.org/news/white-h...

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White Hat | Conservation Mitigation Easement

The White Hat mitigation project and its restoration efforts in the Pasquotank River Basin are enhancing water quality & habitat to protect the environment

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 21/09/2026

The dye came out of the mills so thick you could see it. "We used to throw a log in the river to break up that dye," Ramseur's mayor told us. "It would be that thick. About two to three inches." He grew up swimming in that. He never stopped loving the river.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 16/09/2026

Stand on a ridge and pour out a glass of water. Some runs one way, some the other. That ridge is a divide. It decides which river your rain joins. Divides are borders of every watershed.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 15/09/2026

In the headwaters of Daddys Creek on the Cumberland Plateau, 31 acres of restored streams and wetlands stand protected at High Hood in Tennessee. uniqueplacestosave.org/news/high-ho...

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High Hood | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Explore how conservation easements and mitigation banking projects are preserving water quality and ecological integrity in Tennessee and North Carolina

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 14/09/2026

Carol Akers' grandparents brought her father to Ramseur to work the cotton mill. Five of them lived in one company house. They walked across the bridge every morning. They owed the company store, like everybody did, and were paid in script instead of money.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 11/09/2026

Watershed of the month: the Tennessee headwaters. Mountain water starts cold and clean on the Cumberland Plateau, then runs all the way to the Gulf. We protect a string of headwater sites that keep it that way.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 09/09/2026

You have a street address. You also have a watershed address: your creek, your river, your river's family. It is the address your water uses. Most people never learn it. This year, you will.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 07/09/2026

Ramseur's mayor is 81 years old and calls himself a river rat. As a boy, Hampton Spivey slept on the banks of the Deep River two or three weekends a month. No sleeping bags. Just an old blanket. "I woke up out there one time covered in snow."

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 05/09/2026

Where does your dollar actually go? Here's the honest answer. 🌿 It funds the work that outlasts the headline: monitoring properties year after year, upholding every easement term, and defending protected land if it's ever challenged.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 04/09/2026

A new conservation project is taking shape in Randolph County. 🌿 Our upcoming 24-acre “Blue Sky” Conservation Easement will protect 7,147 linear feet of restored stream and 4.48 acres of functional wetlands.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 02/09/2026

Three sizes of watershed, in plain words. Your creek is the small one. Your river is the creek plus all its neighbors. Your river's family is every river that flows to the same place. You live in all three at once.

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Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 31/08/2026

Ramseur, North Carolina exists because somebody needed to grind corn. A grist mill on the Deep River turned moving water into power. Farmers came to have their corn ground. A town assembled around them. The woman who is town clerk today descends from the family that built that mill.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 28/08/2026

From the Field Friday 🌿 Heading up into the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC, to Dugger Creek where wetlands, streams, and protected-species habitat come together at watershed scale. What stands out in the field here is the connection: the water that starts in these mountains doesn't stay in them.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 27/08/2026

"So do I have to give up my land?" 🌿 It's the first question almost every landowner asks and the answer is no. A conservation easement is a voluntary, permanent agreement that limits certain development while you keep ownership, keep living and working the land, and can still pass it on.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 26/08/2026

Downstream is not just a direction. It is a relationship. Whatever touches the water upstream reaches everyone below: the next town, the next farm, the fish, the coast. We all live downstream of someone.

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Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 24/08/2026

Protection doesn't stop at the state line. This year we became permanent steward of 65 acres at Camp Run, WV water that flows all the way to the Chesapeake Bay. Where the water goes, the work goes. 🌿

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 21/08/2026

From the Field Friday 🌿 Dispatch from Surry County, NC: the Miller easement, where nearly a mile of tributary now runs protected for good, wrapped in the riparian forest that keeps it healthy.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 20/08/2026

The cheapest flood control we have is already built it just needs protecting. 🌊 As storms intensify and gray infrastructure ages, communities are rediscovering what wetlands do for free: slow and absorb stormwater, filter pollutants, and buffer the costs that otherwise land on cities and taxpayers.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 19/08/2026

Want to know your watershed? Picture the nearest creek or stream to your home, then follow it downstream in your mind. All the land that drains into it is your watershed. You share it with everyone on the same creek.

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Explore the Watersheds We Protect

Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 19/08/2026

Conservation is permanent. Shouldn't the support behind it be? 🌊 Signing an easement is the beginning, not the end. The land still has to be monitored year after year, its terms upheld, and its protections defended if ever challenged. That work doesn't fund itself and it never stops.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 18/08/2026

1,218 acres of forested bottomland and wetlands in Liberty County, TX, protected forever. Batiste Creek safeguards the Pine Island Bayou watershed, one of the largest projects in our care. uniqueplacestosave.org/news/batiste...

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Batiste Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Discover how the Reaper conservation easement revitalizes streams and habitats in Randolph County, North Carolina, ensuring long-term environmental protection and restoration.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 17/08/2026

From the Field Friday 🌿 Circling back to Mudhoney II in Chatham County, NC with 31 acres permanently protected earlier this year.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 16/08/2026

Wetland math: cheaper to keep than to rebuild. A drained wetland rarely comes back the same and replacing what it did (flood control, water filtering) costs communities far more than protecting it ever would. 🌊

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 15/08/2026

Last month we permanently protected stream and wetland habitat at Camp Creek, North Carolina: restoring degraded channels, reconnecting them to floodplains, and rebuilding floodplain wetlands. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 14/08/2026

Watershed of the month: the Edisto. One of the longest blackwater rivers in the country ends in the salt marsh of the South Carolina Lowcountry, where we protected 1,313 acres at Point Farm. Marsh feeds fish, blocks storms, and cleans the coast.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 12/08/2026

Quick question: what watershed do you live in? A watershed is all the land where rain drains to the same creek, then the same river. You are standing in one right now. So is everyone you know.

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Explore the rivers, river families, and regions where Unique Places to Save has protected land. Everyone lives downstream.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 11/08/2026

1,166 acres of tidal salt marsh near Charleston, protected forever. Point Farm is the largest wetland complex in our care, where maritime forest meets the waters of the Edisto River Basin. uniqueplacestosave.org/news/point-f...

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Point Farm | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Over 1,300 acres near Charleston SC, the Point Farm Mitigation Bank dedicated to salt marsh restoration, enhancement, and preservation

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 11/08/2026

After the Sackett ruling, wetland permits in North Carolina dropped 60% and South Carolina's dropped 22%. That means less restoration work to offset wetland loss. Federal protection is stepping back. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 10/08/2026

Did you know? A single protected wetland can filter runoff, store floodwater, and shelter wildlife all at once. Work that would cost a fortune to replicate. At Little Cabin, NC, that's 11 tributaries and 45+ acres held for good. 🌿

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 07/08/2026

From the Field Friday 🌿 This week, a closer look at Hopkins Farm in Caswell County, NC with 39 acres now protected for good in the Cape Fear River Basin.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 05/08/2026

In South Carolina, we permanently protected 1,313 acres at Point Farm, including 1,107 acres of pristine tidal salt marsh, among the most productive and most threatened wetlands on the East Coast. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 04/08/2026

In parts of the Prairie Pothole Region, the most important duck-breeding habitat in North America, 50 to 90% of the original wetlands are already gone. Duck numbers there now sit 10% below the long-term average. A new way to help save wetlands is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 31/07/2026

A sweet success at Cape Fear Dairyland 🌿 A perfect morning to explore 31 stunning acres in Orange County, where the history runs as deep as the roots.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 30/07/2026

When you give to conservation, you're not just donating. You're deciding what gets funded. 🌿 Some organizations carry heavy overhead. We're built differently.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 29/07/2026

In Liberty County, Texas, we permanently protected 1,218 acres at Batiste Creek: forested bottomland, more than 200 acres of wetlands, and nearly 8 miles of waterways feeding Pine Island Bayou. The land is no longer in play. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 28/07/2026

Right now, 90,000 acres of forested wetlands in Mississippi's Yazoo Backwater are at risk from a single Army Corps flood-control project, an area larger than the city of New Orleans. Once filled or drained, wetlands don't come back. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 27/07/2026

Think your land doesn't qualify for conservation? Think again. 🌾 Many conservation nonprofits won't work with working lands, working forests, timberland, or agricultural property. The assumption is that conservation is only for pristine wilderness. We see it differently.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 24/07/2026

From the Field Friday 🌿 30 acres can go a long way when it comes to saving a species. Mudhoney covers just over 30 acres of North Carolina landscape now being transformed into a thriving Piedmont Alluvial Forest.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 23/07/2026

"Four places. Four stories. One mission. 🌿 Every protected property tells us something different about what conservation can do:

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 22/07/2026

We permanently protected 1,040 acres at Boiling Spring Wilderness in North Carolina with the NC Land and Water Fund: Carolina bays, forested wetlands, and the recharge zone for an aquifer that supplies drinking water for thousands. A new way to help is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 21/07/2026

By the EPA’s own estimate, up to 63% of U.S. wetlands could lose federal protection under the narrowed Clean Water Act. That is nearly two-thirds of the places that filter our water and soften floods. A new way to help save them is coming soon.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 20/07/2026

Join the Current. 🌊 Conservation isn't a single moment it's a steady flow of protection, stewardship, and care that continues long after a project is complete. Keeping that current moving is what permanent protection actually requires. That's why we're inviting you to become a monthly Champion.

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