Red Spruce Restoration

Red Spruce Restoration Plan Would Revitalize Native Tree Coverage Across Appalachia

One tree species native to Appalachia can grow 75 feet tall and live more than 350 years. But the species saw a decline in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to logging, forest fires and acid rain.

Continue Reading Take Me to More News

Glidepath To Recovery: Flying Squirrels And Spruce Forests Share Common Fate

U.S. Forest Service district biologist Shane Jones stands on an overlook high up on West Virginia’s Cheat Mountain. Behind him lush, red spruce trees…

Continue Reading Take Me to More News

More West Virginia News