Outwander used USDA Forest Service data to identify year-round campgrounds in national forests in North Carolina.

Hurricane Helene severely damaged western North Carolina's national forests, including a lot of old-growth trees that are over 100 years old. Conservationists had hoped those trees would get ...

It blew down an estimated 187,000 acres of forests in western North Carolina. In 2022, the Biden administration issued an executive order to protect old-growth forests on public land from the ...