WNC Communities has announced availability of $70,000 for a second year of competitive awards to help support efforts to restore North Carolina hemlocks. This is a part of the Hemlock Restoration ...

Press release from FIND Outdoors: FIND Outdoors is pleased to announce the reopening of the Carolina Hemlocks Restoration Area on April 15, 2025. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 12:00 p.m.

The granddaddy trees of North Carolina’s mountains are skeletons on many slopes. Hemlocks that might have lived for 800 years can die in as few as five, victims of tiny, sap-sucking bugs. Gray hemlock ...

ASHEVILLE — The Hemlock Restoration Initiative last week announced four grants totaling $50,000 to help to restore North Carolina’s hemlock trees to long-term health. Hemlocks across Western North ...

European settlers who ventured into the southern Appalachians found 500-year-old hemlocks with trunks 5 feet in diameter. Those graceful trees are mostly gone, logged for lumber and for bark used by ...

If you have hemlocks or Fraser firs in your yard, you could participate in a citizen scientist program, the Tiny Terrors project, sponsored by N.C. State University. N.C. State researchers are ...

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North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Tuesday additional funding for efforts to restore the state's hemlock trees to long-term health. The N.C. Department of Agriculture and ...

Athens, Ga. - For the first time, University of Georgia researchers have successfully cryogenically frozen germplasm from hemlock trees being wiped out across the eastern U.S. by an invasive insect.

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Poison hemlock grows in 20+ North Carolina counties, including Mecklenburg and Wake. Ingestion or contact can cause serious symptoms, ...