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Two uncontained Western NC wildfires on national forest land grew to 800 and 300 acres on April 16, while firefighters battle ...
I THINK WHAT’S PUSHING THIS FIRE IS THE STORM DEBRIS, WHICH IS FUELING IT, AND ALSO THE UPWARD SLOPE ... the North Carolina Forest Service responded to a wildfire in the Pisgah National ...
Crews in Western North ... Pisgah National Forest. As of 8 p.m. the Rattlesnake Branch Fire remains at 200 acres at 0% containment. The Shining Rock Wilderness area is closed, including all trails ...
The U.S. Forest Service said the Shining Rock Wilderness Area is closed including the following trails: Swain County ... the Rattlesnake Branch Fire in Pisgah National Forest grew to about 623 ...
The U.S. Department of Transportation claims using resources in Pisgah National Forest ... to more than 187,000 acres of national forest land in Western North Carolina, according to a report ...
PISGAH FOREST — FIND Outdoors announces that April 5 will be the seasonal reopening of the Cradle of Forestry in Pisgah National Forest. This historic site, often referred to as the birthplace of ...
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 ...
A special use permit will allow NCDOT to “use rock from Forest Service land and extract construction materials from the ...
North Carolina Department of Transportation crews will be able to take construction materials from the Pisgah National Forest to rebuild a section of Interstate 40 that washed out in Hurricane Helene.
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 ...
In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah ... of the trail in western North Carolina could remain closed for more than a year because the National Forest Service ...