The move threatens thousands of miles of wilderness used for recreation by hikers, bikers, kayakers and others, and it ...

The groups said the Forest Service plan’s flaws — including clear-cutting for timber — are magnified by the damage from Hurricane Helene. Environmental groups sued the Trump administration Friday to ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Environmental advocates are fighting a federal plan that increases logging operations in two U.S. forests in North Carolina. MountainTrue, Sierra Club, Center for Biological ...

BURNSVILLE, N.C. — As Western North Carolina’s forests recover from Hurricane Helene, environmental groups say Pisgah and Nantahala face a one-two punch from the federal government, potentially ...

@NCCapitol New federal plan could open parts of western NC forests to logging North Carolina's Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests are among the most visited in the country. The future of roughly ...

A scene in the Pisgah National Forest. Photo by Jack Igelman, courtesy of Carolina Public Press By Arturo Pineda, originally published by Carolina Public Press. Carolina Public Press is an independent ...

Logging trucks often have logs extending off the back of trailers. A North Carolina man was killed when he ran into a log hanging off a trailer similar to this one, the N.C. Highway Patrol reports.