ASHEVILLE – The U.S. Forest Service announced the final version of the Pisgah-Nantahala Land Management Plan in February 2023, drawing criticism from conservation advocates about its allowance for ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation groups, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Forest Service from relying on a ...

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 ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Southern Environmental Law Center has sued the National Forest Service ...

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping ...

Conservation groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service, arguing that the agency’s plans to log a sensitive area of the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina violate federal law. The lawsuit, ...

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 ...

The 9th Circuit upheld a ruling allowing timber companies to log scattered plots east of Verlot. It’ll also bring trailhead updates. VERLOT — Engorged with recent rainfall and snowmelt, it is not hard ...

Opponents of proposed logging in White Mountain National Forest have their last chance to object to a project in the Sandwich area this week. People who have already made public comments on the ...