A survey of the state’s old-growth forests from the mountains to the sea provides a glimpse into our presettlement — and primeval — past.
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Making the Cut: North Carolina Christmas Trees
Fraser firs may be the big tree on campus at lots across the state, but on Down East cut-your-own farms, cedar, cypress, and pine are the trees that growers vote most likely to succeed.
Oh, (State) Christmas Tree!
A Fraser fir, always and only. Folks who’d stoop to taking home something like a Scotch pine? Amateurs.
The Lord of the Forest: the American Chestnut
The American chestnut ruled our forests for centuries, but a killer blight made up of microscopic spores needed only 50 years to wipe the giant from the face of North America. But we still have buildings made from it, and we still have people pulling for it. An organization based in Asheville wants to bring it back from memory and make the chestnut stand tall again.
Into the Forest: Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is 3,800 acres of unchecked wilderness. Here, centuries-old trees scrape the sky and shelter a natural world that reminds us of our place on this planet.
Meet Bus Hubbard, The Tree Surgeon at UNC Chapel Hill
For more than 50 years, Bus Hubbard has helped shape the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, branch by branch.
Live Oak
Beautiful and powerful, these monsters of the maritime stand as iconic symbols of the South.
Thanks to the Trees: Tim Womick’s Story
Asheboro’s Tim Womick wandered for years, trying this and quitting that. Then one day, in the middle of a hardwood forest, he found his true calling growing all around him.
