BREVARD - Pisgah Area Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, The Pisgah Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service held a grand opening of the newly upgrade Butter Gap Trail Complex in Pisgah National ...

The proposed project was to take place in a designated North Carolina Natural Heritage Natural Area containing rare plants ...

PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST - Creeks flooded, mud slid onto roads and trees blocked trails, but the Pisgah Ranger District of Pisgah National Forest was spared the worst of Tropical Storm Helene. The ...

ASHEVILLE - Numerous trails in the Pisgah National Forest are now open to hikers and visitors — including the popular Catawba Falls — months after Tropical Storm Helene brought tens of millions of ...

Pisgah Forest, NC – More than one hundred volunteers gathered at Sycamore Flats the first two Fridays of November to kick off the cleanup of one of Pisgah’s most popular and cherished recreation sites ...

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 ...

Pisgah, NC (September 19, 2025) — September marks one year since Hurricane Helene swept through Western North Carolina, leaving scars still visible across communities and landscapes. While the storm ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— Conservation groups sent a letter Tuesday urging the U.S. Forest Service to amend the Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan because of the tremendous damage from Hurricane Helene to North ...

The Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina is big -- over half a million acres -- and it's one of the most visited national parks in the country. But some visitors are unwelcome, and the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Transportation has received permits to extract rock from Pisgah National Forest to reconstruct Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge, an area ...