Returning NC's Hemlocks to Long-Term Health
A recent article in the Crossville Chronicle written by Keith Robinson highlights efforts to save hemlocks within the Fairfield Glade community in eastern Tennessee. The write up features HRI partners Jackie Broeker with the Tennessee Division of Forestry and Pat…
As we here at HRI wrap up our relatively quiet month of August, we recognize that the world around us is far from calm and peaceful. The pandemic continues to keep us on our toes and reinforce the necessity of…
Join HRI in DuPont State Recreational Forest for a “hike-and-treat” combination educational hike and volunteer treatment day. As we hike, we will observe and discuss our two native species of hemlock trees, the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), its impacts and…
In spite of the pandemic, HRI has been able to accomplish a lot this fall and winter. After a quiet spring and summer, it has been great to reconnect and re-engage with the larger HRI community. Whether it has been…
Over the past few years, the Hemlock Restoration Initiative has worked in tandem with FIND Outdoors and the Cradle of Forestry to advocate, educate, and actively preserve our threatened eastern and Carolina hemlocks. In another step towards that goal, we…
We are thrilled and honored that HRI’s director Margot Wallston and outreach associate Thom Green will be featured in a four-part interview on 103.3 Asheville FM’s The Fusion Forest radio show. The Fusion Forest is a weekly show that airs…