August 22-30 is National Park Week, celebrating both the 110thanniversary of the National Park Service on August 25th, and the nation's 250th. Find out what the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has in store for that week. In a second part of a series on Asheville Greenworks, we learn about a new device to help make river debris removal easier. Also in this episode, an update on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule, which jeopardizes nearly 45 million acres of undeveloped backcountry forestland managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
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