Federal rollback of Roadless Rule could imperil some of North Carolina’s last wild lands, experts say • Asheville Watchdog

Federal rollback of Roadless Rule could imperil some of North Carolina’s last wild lands, experts say • Asheville Watchdog

Than Axtell, a fly-fishing guide who has lived in western North Carolina for three decades, adores the unimpeded wilderness around the south fork of the Mills River — the rare place, he said, where one can spend a weekend backpacking, fishing the whole way, and rarely seeing another angler. Marc Hunt, a conservationist and former Asheville […]