The U.S. Forest Service reopened trails and roads in the Pisgah National Forest’s Appalachian Ranger District after damage from Tropical Storm Helene. More than 100 miles of the Appalachian ...

and more than 3,000 attempt to hike the entire trail. Roughly 159 million people use national forests annually. The U.S. Forest Service operates the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina and ...

Then you’d round a corner and there would be a hundred trees across the trail.” In some places, the storm turned the forest into what Tate called “jackstraw timber, piled as high as your ...

To date, the US Forest Service has surveyed and cleared nearly 240 miles of roads (nearly 76% of roads) across the Appalachian Ranger District.