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Wildfire smoke covers a valley in Pisgah National Forest as crews fight the 504-acre Bee Rock Creek Fire near the Armstrong ...
A wildfire in northern McDowell County near Little Switzerland grew to 175 acres April 14, with no additional evacuations or ...
Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice ...
Two uncontained Western NC wildfires on national forest land grew to 800 and 300 acres on April 16, while firefighters battle ...
In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers ...
Previous Coverage:On Tuesday, the North Carolina Forest Service responded to a wildfire in the Pisgah National Forest.Just before 4 p.m., the city of Marion, North Carolina, said a wildfire has ...
The U.S Department of Transportation has "cleared a number of legal barriers" allowing the N.C. Department of Transportation to use construction materials from Pisgah National Forest to repair the ...
A coalition of Western North Carolina conservation organizations sued the U.S. Forest Service as the Trump administration has pushed for more timber harvesting.
The Trump administration wants more timber production out of America's national forests, which would make a significant ...
A coalition of conservation groups today sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Forest Service’s Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan. The plan allows for a five-fold increase in logging that violates ...
ASHEVILLE - The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to release plans to increase timber production in national forests, including Western North Carolina's wide and expansive Nantahala-Pisgah National ...
During Helene, 187,000 acres of national forest were blown down and some believe that logging will hurt the forest's recovery.