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 Nantahala and Pisgah national forests contain more than 100,000 acres of old-growth forest that are threatened by logging. Photo by Will Harlan/Center for Biological Diversity. Image is available ...