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Jaclyn’s guests this week return to discuss protecting North Carolina’s trees and aquatic wildlife. Olivia Hall of the Hemlock Restoration Initiative explains how property owners can treat hemlocks for woolly adelgid and introduces the Lingering Hemlock Project’s work toward developing resistant trees. -
Jaclyn is joined by Olivia Hall, Educational Outreach Manager with Hemlock Restoration Initiative. They discuss the organization’s work and introduce listeners to the hemlock wooly adelgid. Learn more at https://savehemlocksnc.org/The second guest, Rachael Hoch, is the assistant chief of fisheries/aquatic diversity with NC Wildlife Resources Commission. They’re proposing amendments to the state endangered, threatened, and special concern species rules. Hoch highlights the conservation success story of the Roanoke Logperch and the threats facing the River Redhorse.Public comments will be accepted through November 2nd.
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The U.S. Forest Service has formally proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, which limits road construction and timber harvesting on millions of acres of national forest land. This week, MountainTrue Resilient Forests Organizer Donovan Green joins the Outdoors Report to talk about what could be at risk in our region, the public comment period ending September 21, and how people can get involved. -
A bear made news this week after entering a home in Asheville in search of food, injuring the homeowner. This week, I'm airing a portion of my interview with NC Wildlife Biologist and statewide BearWise coordinator Ashley Hobbs. And to wrap up the series on Asheville Greenworks, we hear from their Watershed Outreach Coordinator, Micah Azalea Lynn, about two of their volunteer opportunities.
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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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This week's guests include Liz Rasheed, senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, to talk about recent changes to the Endangered Species Act. And Asheville Greenworks ' director of impact and engagement, Carrie Harmon, kicks off at least a two-part series on the organization. She talks about how the organization got started, the work they do, and she gets specific about their Hard-to-Recycle program.