In this week's Asheville Answers, a reader asks about fallen timber from Helene that's impacting WNC wildfires. What's the ...

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

A coalition of conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest ... developing the Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest 2023 land management plan that has been "upended" by Tropical Storm Helene.

In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National ... and forest advocates have long questioned whether salvage logging, which brings its own ecological damage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Pisgah National Forest spans over a half-million acres ... 2025 after being closed for months because of massive damage from Hurricane Helene. In late February, NCDOT Construction Engineer ...