March 2010

Environmental group plans trip down The Yadkin River

March 28th, 2010
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By Andy Matthews, Yadkin Valley News
More than three quarters of a century ago, a writer traveled down the Yadkin River from North Wilkesboro to Georgetown, S.C. where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The purpose of the trip was to chronicle life along the Yadkin, leaving behind a journal that told about the river's abundant natural resources, flourishing wildlife, its newly industrialized cities, and a host of characters that populated the river basin.

Yadkin Riverkeeper Announces Plan to Paddle River

March 22nd, 2010
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Yadkin Riverkeeper® announces plans to paddle the Yadkin River in April from Blowing Rock to the Pee Dee River connection near the South Carolina border to raise awareness of the battle against Alcoa’s relicensing of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project as well as the increasing pressures the Yadkin faces that threaten its vitality from human development, habitat degradation and sedimentation issues.