North Carolina Wildfire Map: Saluda, Tyron, And Croatan National Forest Among Affected Areas
Wildfires are raging through western North Carolina, with a fire in the Blue Ridge mountains causing Saturday evacuations in the small towns of Tryon and Saluda. The US Forest Service also said that ...
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U.S. Forest Service Agrees to Protect Nantahala Forest From Logging
ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The U.S. Forest Service announced Friday that it will scrap plans to log a biologically important area of North Carolina’s Nantahala National Forest near the Whitewater River. The ...
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Forest Service Urged to Update N.C.’s Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Plan in Wake of Hurricane Helene
ASHEVILLE, N.C.— Conservation groups sent a letter Tuesday urging the U.S. Forest Service to amend the Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan because of the tremendous damage from Hurricane Helene to North ...