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Hope for the hemlocks: Hike explores past, present and future of WNC hemlocks

Under the gray, misty November sky covering Panthertown Valley near Cashiers, we swish through shin-deep leaves in search of hemlock trees.

Up Moses Creek: ‘When, Wren?’

Finally, we can go out the back door again. For a ...

The Joyful Botanist: After The Flood

Water washes us clean, helps to cook our food and ...

Up Moses Creek: You come too

If happiness can be found in simple things, then M...

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Hope for the hemlocks: Hike explores past, present and future of WNC hemlocks

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Fishing updates

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Hope for the hemlocks: Hike explores past, present and future of WNC hemlocks

On the trail

Fishing updates

In the garden

Outdoors roundup

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