Returning NC's Hemlocks to Long-Term Health
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…
This winter the Paddlers Hemlock Health Action Taskforce, a.k.a. PHHAT, received more attention in the press. One from a national magazine and the other from a North Carolina-based publication. You can read each story by following the links below. Lynn…
As the adult Laricobius beetles become harder to find with the season advancing towards summer, HRI’s beetle monitoring teams are finding more and more Laricobius larvae. The larvae of these beneficial predator beetles have hatched out of their eggs laid…
Help spread the word! Applications are now being accepted for the AmeriCorps Project Conserve HRI Stewardship and Volunteer Engagement Associate with the Hemlock Restoration Initiative of WNC Communities. The 11-month term will run from September 1, 2020 to July 31,…
In addition to getting questions about how to treat hemlock trees for hemlock woolly adelgid, we are frequently asked how best to plant or transplant young hemlocks. Therefore, this January, HRI reached out to western North Carolina nursery owners asking…
Last fall we were surprised and delighted to be joined in the field by both of our former forestry technicians from the 2017-2018 season (which, by the way, was the first year HRI was able to hire dedicated techs to…