Returning NC's Hemlocks to Long-Term Health
We have some exciting news to share with you about the Hemlock Restoration Initiative. As you may recall, Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, launched the HRI program with available funds from the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in…
You may know that in the last couple years the NC Forest Service has been growing hemlocks from seed in great numbers in order to establish protocols for future production of hemlock strains that can be used for large scale…
HRI is excited to congratulate a team of 41 North Carolina Forest Service employees who earned the NCDA&CS Excellence in Team Accomplishment Award for a large project to treat hemlocks across multiple state lands. The team consisted of NC Forest…
The newest HRI newsletter is out. Contents include: 2019 recap Resources for landowners Spotlight of volunteer Christoph Berenotto Asian longhorn beetle alert NCFS hemlock seedling sale Forest Restoration Alliance update A request for HCA photos Click here to read our…
The NCFS is committed to the restoration of our native hemlocks and has partnered with HRI to help restore this species. This has included treatment of tens of thousands of trees and providing seedlings for restoration. NCFS is continuing that…
In the recent Forest Stewards Guild’s e-newsletter Across the Landscape, Hanusia Higgins reflects on her experience protecting hemlock trees in one of Asheville’s historically Black cemeteries. Hanusia served as the HRI AmeriCorp Project Conserve member from 2018-2019. In her piece “Helping…