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Word from the Smokies: Exotic joro spider discovered in the Smokies
They’ve been spreading ever since, and on Oct. 17, Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded its first joro sighting.
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In The Aftermath Of Helene
But for many of the gateway towns to these national parks—places like Boone, Blowing Rock, Asheville, Cherokee, and Canton in North ... In Asheville, one of the hardest-hit towns near Great Smoky ...
Asheville corridor of Blue Ridge Parkway reopens after Helene
The National Park Service restored another portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina on Wednesday, making ...
Nearly 6 weeks after Helene, another section of Blue Ridge Parkway reopens
An 11-mile section of the road opened Wednesday near Asheville, between U.S. 70 and N.C. 191 near the N.C. Arboretum. That ...
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Officials provide update on MST
It’s been just over a month since Hurricane Helene brought widespread devastation to Western North Carolina and the ...
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of ...