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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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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 · 28/09/2026

Downstream of it lives the Cape Fear shiner, a small fish found nowhere else on earth. Yellow lampmussel, triangle floater and creeper are in this water too. More on the project: uniqueplacestosave.org/ramseur-dam

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Ramseur Dam | Deep River State Trail | Unique Places to Save

The Ramseur Dam project will help restore the Deep River's ecosystem, protect endangered species & increase public access to the river in the downtown

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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

Seeing a landscape regain its natural balance firsthand is why we do this work. More dispatches from the field coming soon. #LandConservation #StreamRestoration #WetlandRestoration #WatershedRestoration #HabitatRestoration

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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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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 · 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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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 · 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

"I was taught, you get with the company and you stay there until you retire. Be good to them and they'll be good to you." Carol is Ramseur's town clerk now. Her interview: uniqueplacestosave.org/news/the-riv...

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The River That Built a Town: Ramseur’s Past Shapes Future Conservation (Part Two)

Explore how the Deep River restoration project in Ramseur intertwines community history and ecological health, shaping a vibrant future for the town.

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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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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 · 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

The property also provides prime habitat for the federally endangered Schweinitz’s sunflower, one of the rarest native plants in the U.S. Protecting land means protecting everything that depends on it. 💚 #LandConservation #HabitatRestoration #WetlandRestoration #ConservationEasement #NorthCarolina

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

In partnership with Wildlands, the project will reconnect floodplains, restore natural hydrology, and reestablish native vegetation creating healthier stream and wetland ecosystems for years to come.

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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 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 · 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

It runs down, feeds rivers, supplies communities. Protecting the source protects everything that comes after it. That's why we insist on permanent protection over temporary the water cycle doesn't take a day off, and neither can the protection.

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Camp Run | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Discover the Camp Run Conservation Easement project in West Virginia, focused on restoring streams and wetlands while enhancing local ecosystems for future generations.

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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

What changes is that its conservation values are protected forever, no matter who owns it next. For some landowners, donating an easement can also carry meaningful tax advantages worth exploring with your advisor.

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Land Conservation Easements for Landowners | Unique Places to Save

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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 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 · 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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