".....I’ve ridden these trails since my family moved to the area in 1990, and it would have been an entirely pleasurable morning spent on an exceptionally nice Irish sport horse, except that Anita was showing me where Duke Energy plans to decimate the natural beauty of this area. As we rode along Hooper Creek, where ancient Beech trees cast their shadows on the meandering river where I once taught my Pony Club mount to go through water, Anita explained how landowners created the Pacolet Area Conservancy to protect the area, but now there is a massive threat regardless of these efforts....." Read the article here: