Rural Buncombe County farming community the center of a nonprofit group and private landowner effort to fight invasive plants, promote forest stewardship. Invasive plants in forest pose challen...
Deteriorating forest roads damage ecosystem, limit access essential for forest management and forest-product economy. Can US Forest Service afford to maintain roads needed to manage Western NC ...
US Forest Service weighing public comment as it moves toward final forests management plan, but major collaborative groups divided over key issues. Influential groups lack agreement on Western ...
Buck Project to harvest trees in Nantahala National Forest. Advocates say US Forest Service failed to weigh public comments opposing this action adequately. Buck Project decision to harvest tre...
Most Western NC counties oppose more federal protection for areas inside their borders. Buncombe is an exception, wants more protection for 16,000 acres. Buncombe seeks permanent federal protec...
https://carolinapublicpress.org/30365/buncombe-seeks-permanent-federal-protection-of-16000-acres/