This Land, Your Land

The Blue Ridge Parkway will get stone walls repaired and overgrown vistas cleared with more than $14 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, says the Asheville Citizen-Times. The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site at Flat Rock will receive $100,000 for maintenance work.

Stimulus money for the Parkway will be used to remove trees all along the Parkway, restore stone walls extending from Cumberland Knob south, repair trails and preserve stone walls at Moses H. Cone Memorial Park near Boone, pave picnic areas at Linville Falls and Balsam Gap, repair the lining in Buck Spring Tunnel near Mount Pisgah and other projects, according to the Citizen-Times.

More than $36 million of $750 million the National Park Service received will go to fund 28 projects at park units in North Carolina, the newspaper says.