Mountain Xpress

Lawsuit seeks to block unlawful logging project threatening North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, sued the U.S. Forest Service today after the agency refused to stop an unlawful logging ...
Cowboys Wire

Helene debris lingers in WNC rivers. With new funding, a nonprofit rafts to retrieve it

With over $10 million in funding, MountainTrue is expanding its River Cleanup Program to watersheds in eastern Tennessee, ...
Islands on MSN

The Best Rivers To Go Whitewater Rafting (Other Than Colorado)

From coast to coast, America is packed with rivers ready for your next adrenaline rush. Here are the best whitewater spots ...
Yahoo

Rebuilding a century-old homestead after a once-in-a-century storm

Leo Sharp, 38, and Tessa Reed, 29, have lived as homesteaders along the Nolichucky River in Green Mountain, N.C., for three years. They're slowly rebuilding their home and livelihood a year after ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

A year after Helene, a group of raft guides embarks on a river clean-up mission

A popular rafting river in the Appalachian mountains is still closed a year after Hurricane Helene, because there's just too much debris. Now,... A year after Helene, a group of raft guides embarks on ...
WLRN

A year after Helene, a group of raft guides embarks on a river clean-up mission

ERWIN, Tenn. — When Amelia Taylor learned that whitewater outfitters near the Nolichucky River would remain closed this season, she had to figure out how to make up for the lost income. So she went ...