A wildfire in the Nantahala National Forest continues to burn without any containment over a week after a lightning strike first sparked it Oct. 23, officials say. A total of 55 personnel from the ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The U.S. Forest Service released the Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest Plan today, quadrupling logging and reducing protections for the most visited national forest in the country. The ...

The Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests are restricting campfires effective immediately, according to a U.S. Forest Service news release. Currently, the largest wildfire in North Carolina ...

NANTAHALA NATIONAL FOREST – Looking for a little zip to the average ho-hum hiking guide? The U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station has just unveiled a web app that will take you on a ...

These rivers, plus the ten already eligible rivers, brings the total eligible wild and scenic rivers in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests to 19. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service ...

The largest of these, the Haoe Fire, was burning 500 acres in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness of the Nantahala National Forest as of the evening of April 15. ... North Carolina wildfires map.

Map depicts closures within the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness in the Cheoah Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest in Graham and Swain counties due to a wildfire on April 15, 2025.

The long-awaited plan to manage more than 1 million acres of national forest was released Feb. 16 by the U.S. Forest Service. The plan sets out a strategy to restore the ecological integrity of ...

Nantahala National Forest lands south of US 64 and Allison Creek Road (SR 1448), to the Southern Nantahala Wilderness boundary (including the Standing Indian and Hurricane Creek areas) ...