Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Fort Mountain Driving up from the flatlands toward the southern…
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HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – South Carolina
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Highway One way to start your…
HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – North Carolina
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Cataloochee Valley Surrounded by 6,000-foot peaks in the heart of…
TAGS: Bike trails Chataloochee Valley Fontana Lake Great Smoky Mountains National Park Nantahala National Forest North Carolina Tsali Tsali Recreation Area
HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – Tennessee
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Fiery Gizzard Mountain Located in the heart of the South…
TAGS: Firey Gizzard Creek Firey Gizzard Mountain Jamestown Pickett State Park South Cumberland Plateau Tennessee Tennessee River Gorge The Tennessee Wall
HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – Kentucky
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Breaks Interstate Park Approximately 250 million years in the making,…
TAGS: Breaks Interstate Park Grand Canyon of the South Green Clay Kentucky Laura Clay Madison County White Hall
HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – West Virginia
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park Droop Mountain Battlefield, in the…
TAGS: Bear Rocks Preserve Dolly Sods Plateau Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park Greenbrier River Valley Monogahela National Forest West Virginia
HIDDEN TREASURES #2 – Virginia
Welcome to part two in our exploration of the most amazing places in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains — this time exploring some of our most fabulous Public Lands. Fort Valley This quaint locale is best described as a…
Plundering Private Property Rights
By Paige Campbell Half a dozen generations ago, when a coal-mining boom first enticed southwest Virginians to sell the rights to minerals beneath their land, the deal they were making concerned the coal itself. At least, that’s how Virginia’s courts…
TAGS: Coal fracking gas drilling Marcellus Shale mineral rights mining companies private property rights
Guardians of our Public Lands
The employees of our state parks, national agencies and conservation organizations are committed to preserving the land we all own and enjoy. The future of our forests, air and water is in their care, and their work to protect our…
TAGS: Beth Obenshain Cumberland Trail Elk Knob State Park hiking trails Kentucky Department of Parks Larry Trivette naturalist nature New River Land Trust public lands Ron Vanover Sam Powell Stephanie Connolly Todd
Last Stand for the Southern Spruce-Fir?
Ancient Mountaintop Species Are Most Vulnerable As Appalachia Warms By Molly Moore At the nonprofit park atop northwestern North Carolina’s Grandfather Mountain, Director of Education Jesse Pope surveys the park’s cold-loving plants, keeping an eye out for the brassy Weller’s…
TAGS: Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative Clean Air Climate grandfather mountain nature Southern Spruce-Fir West Virginia Highland Conservancy
