Fifth-grade students in North Carolina's Yancey County participated in the 2022 Toes in the Toe Festival, learning about streams and getting their feet wet in the South Toe River.
At first blush, cutting trees may seem counterintuitive to conservation, but it can be a fundamental technique for managing southern Appalachian bogs, one of the nation's rarest habitats.
Service and Forest Service staff join with volunteers to plant spruce trees at Whigg Meadow, on the Cherokee National Forest, a move to ensure a long-term food supply for Carolina northern flying squirrels.