Raven’s View

We’re really excited to announce our sponsorship of a great event. ‘Into the Woods” will be a concert and party featuring The High Windy Band, an award-winning bluegrass outfit. The celebration, to be hel April 20, will raise money for the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition.

The folks at SAFC have been working hard to protect the places in which we love to play. Let’s give them the support they deserve!

Friday, April 20th, 6-9 pm, at the beautiful Crest Center in Asheville.

With live music by The High Windy Band!

First Place Winners of the 2005 North Carolina State Bluegrass Competition.

First Place Winners in the senior bluegrass band competition at the 2006 annual Fiddler’s Grove Festival.

A stellar silent auction,

and lots of food and drinks!

Call SAFC at 828.252.9223 for tickets and information.

Tickets are $35 each.

 

President Bush will give a speech today in Shenandoah National Park about his National Park Centennial Initiative. Finally, he’s getting the picture: our national parks need help. The new budget features the most money he’s ever proposed for the National Park Service and its governmental parent, the Department of the Interior. Bush’s forward vision will ready our national parks for the 100th anniversary in 2016.

Strange, then, that Bush’s budget also proposes selling national forest land to fund rural schools. More than 5,600 acres in North Carolina would be auctioned off. Now, we’re not opposed to funding rural schools, but this shouldn’t be done at the expense of our public lands. (more…)

The Citizen-Times reported on a ridiculous idea to sell public lands.

What are these people thinking? We should be preserving more land for the public, not selling land!