Forest on fire: How much should we tamper with Mother Nature?
By Michael Beadle
For the longest time, forest fires were viewed as hazardous events to avoid at all costs.
Remember Smokey the Bear pointing his finger like Uncle Sam, telling folks to do all they could to prevent forest fires?
Mythbusters: Tree hunters scout Wildes Knob for hidden old-growth forest
Josh Kelly looked up from his topo map, took a step back and eyed the steep bank in front of him, scanning the line of the mountain until it disappeared out of sight. Somewhere through the tangle of rhododendrons, over a rock outcrop, and beyond that densely forested knoll was a really old tree, and Kelly was going to find it.
Finding the forest less logged
For three years, Josh Kelly has been stalking forests in the Southern Appalachians in search of unmapped old-growth forests and very old trees.
“It is like a treasure hunt everyday when I go out and look for these places,” Kelly said.