by Southern Highlands Reserve | Dec 4, 2018 | News
The Southern Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative (SASRI) 2018 annual meeting took place on Thursday, November 8 at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest outside of Asheville, North Carolina. This partnership of people from diverse interests was formed in 2013 for...
by Southern Highlands Reserve | Nov 6, 2018 | News
Southern Highlands Reserve recently had the opportunity to assist in a local native plant rescue at the historic High Hampton Resort in Cashiers, NC. A redesign of its golf course by award-winning course designer Tom Fazio involved expansion into previously wooded and...
by Southern Highlands Reserve | Nov 6, 2018 | News
Autumn, marked by cooler weather and shortening days as Earth’s axis begins to tilt away from the sun, transitions us from summer’s lush abundance to winter’s quiet dormancy, and refers in its origins to the passing of the year. Once commonly referred to as harvest,...
by Southern Highlands Reserve | Nov 6, 2018 | News
Southern Highlands Reserve was honored to join the United States Forest Service (USFS) on Friday, October 5, to welcome 17 members of the German Forestry Society (GFS), led by Hans C. Rohr, to Flat Laurel in the Pisgah National Forest. The group included a wilderness...
by Southern Highlands Reserve | Nov 6, 2018 | News
Biodiversity refers to the diversity, or variety, of living organisms on the planet within a given ecosystem, as well as the variety of ecosystem types. This diversity is indispensable to the dynamic processes that keep ecosystems healthy. The wider the range of...