Introducing Ruby the Red Spruce: 2022 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, also known as the People’s Tree, comes from the mountains of western North Carolina
Aerial view of a high elevation spruce-fir forest on the Pisgah National Forest. A left-over relic of the last ice age, this ecosystem flourished across the landscape but slowly receded to higher elevations as temperatures warmed, taking the species that call it home along for the climb. (USDA Forest Service…
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Falling in place
Caption: Chuck Leavell has become a nationally recognized expert in sustainable forestry and environmental protection and is an honorary Forest Ranger with the USDA Forest Service. (Photo courtesy of Chuck Leavell.)
Fall is the favorite season of many a poet, song writer, visual artist or just you and me.…
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Creating community
On a hot, southern Sunday afternoon, more than 500 people from the town of Old Fort, North Carolina, stood on a freshly laid Pisgah National Forest trail as four young girls cut a green ribbon, signaling the opening the first six miles of what will be 42 miles of new trail.But the ribbon cutting was more than ceremony. The act represented another major step in what people who live and work around…