Tag: Red Spruce
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Articles
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Service biologist, Sue Cameron, gives instructions on planting red spruce. Photo by Gary Peeples, USFWS.
Mapping the sky islands
October 9, 2019 | 7 minute read
Asheville, North Carolina — On November 24, 1983, a Cessna 414A left Chicago en route to Sylva, North Carolina, a small town just south of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The plane’s last radar contact showed an altitude of 6,100 feet. About a mile later, at an altitude of about 6,000 feet, it crashed into the ridge between Waterrock Knob and Mount Lynn Lowery, in North Carolina’s Plott Balsam Mountains — the last mountain range before descending to Sylva. Learn more...
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Sue Cameron plants a red spruce at Whigg Meadow in Tennessee. Photo by Garry Peeples, USFWS.
Women lead the effort on Appalachian mountain-top forests
May 24, 2018 | 8 minute read
The story of an ambitious effort to restore red spruce to the Southern Appalachians spearheaded by four women brought together by a commitment to the highest peaks east of the Mississippi River. Learn more...
Podcasts
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Sue Cameron plants a red spruce at Whigg Meadow in Tennessee. Photo by Garry Peeples, USFWS.
Restoring red spruce
November 30, 2015 | 2 minute read
Transcript Greetings and welcome to the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature. A recent afternoon found staff from the Fish and Wildlife Service and Southern Highlands Reserve bushwhacking through Pisgah National Forest collecting red spruce cones - a first step in a multi-year process to restore red spruce to areas where it was found before the extensive logging and burning at the turn of the 20th century. The Southern Appalachians are home to the highest peaks in the eastern United State, where red spruce is a key forest tree. Learn more...
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A nine inch lake sturgeon ready to be stocked in the Tennessee River. Photo by Daniel Schwarz, USFWS.
Lake sturgeon return to North Carolina
November 23, 2015 | 2 minute read
Transcript Welcome to the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature. Absent for more than half a century, lake sturgeon returned to North Carolina waters this fall as seven-thousand fish were released into the French Broad River. Lake Sturgeon are native to the Mississippi, Great Lakes, and Hudson Bay basins - a historical range sweeping from the Deep South to well into Canada. Despite the wide distribution, during the 20th century lake sturgeon declined across their range as a result of overfishing, habitat loss, dams, and pollution. Learn more...
