Outdoors

Hikers’ cars hit by thieves: Trailhead safety becomes focus after recent “car clout” convictions
Three Tennessee residents are headed to prison for breaking into a slew of cars at trailheads in Haywood County during a several month period, hitting hiker’s vehicles in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Pisgah National Forest. The three stole credit and debit cards, and ran up charges on them, while the unsuspecting victims were off happily hiking…

Winter hike at the Needmore tract
Meet at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, to take part in a winter walk along the Little Tennessee…
A unique way to explore ‘your’ Smokies
A new program called experience Your Smokies is a different method now in place to get to know…
Trust in mother nature: Balsam center provides hands-on experiences
Enter Balsam Mountain Trust’s nature center and you’ll come face to face with bobcats, skunks, black bears, maybe…
Backyard Naturalists program launched for kids in Highlands area
The Highlands Biological Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from the Eckerd Family Foundation to create “Backyard Naturalists,”…
NOC does eco-friendly refit of outfitter’s store
Nantahala Outdoor Center is celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary by giving its flagship outfitter’s store in the Nantahala…

Slip-sliding away
Dateline 1999: David Kullivan a forestry/wildlife student at Louisiana State University, tells faculty that while turkey hunting in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, a pair of ivory-billed woodpeckers foraged in trees as close as 10 yards from him. Soon after, an expert-avian search team fielded in part by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and…
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