Conservation nonprofit buys 226 acres in Fairview for education and recreation campus

This story has been updated to add new information and to correct an inaccuracy.

Conserving Carolina, a nonprofit land and water conservation group headquartered in Hendersonville, has bought land in Buncombe County to establish publicly accessible recreation land around a center for youth education.

The Fairview Community Forest is planned to surround the WORX Project, a campus in Fairview that provides work-based education for Western North Carolina children and teens, and will be open to the public for hiking, biking and fishing, according to an Aug. 27 Conserving Carolina news release…

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