Through a vision of conservation and preservation, Mr. Troy Henry has donated 110 acres of this land to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for education and research activities in perpetuity. Mr. Henry owns and resides on another 64 acres which can be visited with his permission. In accordance with Mr. Henry's wishes, use of the entire area will be guided by an emphasis on nature observation and nature education.
Town Creek is navigable from the property to the Cape Fear River by canoe.
The intervening high ground possesses both forested and open land. The majority of the vegetation cover was either selectively cut over or farmed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A bottomland hardwood forest, dominated by red maple, black gum and sweet gum and highlighted with large bald cypresses, meanders along the south and west boundaries. The forest is a relatively undisturbed example of this important coastal plain forest type. Several small creeks or branches drain the upland areas of Ev-Henwood.