Panthertown

“The Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance is forming a Frineds of Panthertown group to support the conservation of Panthertown, a pristine area located near Cashiers, NC. JMCA is seeking support from folks who know the area and are interested in keeping Panthertown maintained as a premier natural attraction and wildnerness destination.

For further information contact the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance at jmca@dnet.net”

“Places like Panthertown will pretty well take care of themselves in the context of the extent of the wildland there. The public lands there are not so large with considerable nearby development occurring every day. A real help for the Panthertown Area would involve additional acquisition for public land of the nearby large undeveloped private tracts particularly along the Tuckaseegee River, Flat Creek, Robinson Creek and around Bear Creek Reservoir and Wolf Creek Reservoir, better yet all land upstream from Bear Creek Reservoir.

Trail maintenance and litter pickup make hikes by vistors there more appealling.

Any fishing should be catch and release only with road construction discouraged to minimize the volume of hunting. All off road vehicular activity should be prohibited there
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“I love Panthertown Valley. It would be a good idea for the state or national government to buy up more land around Panthertown. Development is really encroaching on the valley.”

“Panthertown is cool

called the 'Yosemite of the Eastern US'

but the protected area, which is being encroached upon everyday, is no more than 1/40th. as large as Yosemite NP and Yosemite has considerable buffers, Panthertown does not

and I doubt if any panthers still exists there, at all.
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“Anyone interested in a backpack trip into Panthertown Valley sometime in September 2008?”

“hmmmm, i probably can't/shouldn't.... but i was thinking about going there this past spring.”