Of the nearly 800,000 acres of trees that Helene downed, about 187,000 lie in national forests. Salvage logging — a practice ...

A wildfire in northern McDowell County near Little Switzerland grew to 175 acres April 14, with no additional evacuations or ...

Volunteers, scientists, and hikers are asking for transparency in a process they say could prioritize profit over ecosystems.

Two uncontained Western NC wildfires on national forest land grew to 800 and 300 acres on April 16, while firefighters battle ...

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 ...

On Friday, officials in Western North Carolina shared the final update for a wildfire that started in Haywood County on March ...

After devastation of Helene, lawsuit says forest plan for Pisgah, Nantahala pushes too much logging, at same time Trump wants ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center released a statement indicating they would pursue legal pathways to challenge increased ...

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 ...

During Helene, 187,000 acres of national forest were blown down and some believe that logging will hurt the forest's recovery.

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 ...

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 ...