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Linville Gorge Wilderness Crosscut Warriors
June 25, 2017, volunteers cut fallen trees off the Linville Gorge Trail, central corridor of the beautiful Linville Gorge Wilderness in North Carolina. On wilderness trails it’s expected that there will be some trees and other obstacles, but on steep hillsides such as those in Linville Gorge, such obstacles cause significant erosion as hikers try…
Read MoreLinville Gorge Tire and Trash Haul
May 20, 2017 Wild South continues their efforts to remove trash and tires from the Linville Gorge Wilderness.
Read MoreClean-up at Linville Falls Plunge Basin, Feb. 12
Volunteers cleaned up some nasty stuff today at the otherwise beautiful plunge basin of Linville Falls in North Carolina. (Photos: Scott Campbell and Nicholas Massey)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 29
Linville Gorge volunteers braved the cold today to carry the last cache of flood plain tires and trash miles south to the wilderness boundary. (Photos: David Wheeler, Nicholas Massey, Kevin Massey)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 17
There must be something to it. These people love their wilderness! Volunteers picked up more tires and flood debris today in Linville Gorge. (Photos: Nicholas Massey & Terry Smith)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Jan. 15
The team is at it again! Today volunteers collected tires washed into the wilderness during a flood in the 1970’s. (Photos: David Wheeler & Nicholas Massey)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Dec. 31
Volunteers are what keep Linville Gorge clean! Today a crew picked up trash below the popular Wiseman’s View overlook. (Photos: Kevin Massey)
Read MoreVolunteer Workday in Linville Gorge Wilderness, Dec. 23
Volunteers continue to clean up decades of trash in Linville Gorge Wilderness. Today a team carried an abandoned 84-pound steel cable up the infamous Pinch-In Trail. (Photos: Mike Jones)
Read MoreWild South Receives Grant from National Forest Foundation for Stewardship Work
Wild South received a grant from the National Forest Foundation to support volunteer stewardship of public lands in North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. Since 2006, the foundation has supported Wild South in its conservation work in our national forests, which has expanded to engage hundreds of volunteers in caring for their shared natural resource,…
Read MoreRemoving Invasive Plants from NC Wilderness
Wild South Tackles the Non-native and Invasive Plant Infestations in Linville Gorge Wilderness Measuring in at nearly 12,000 acres, Linville Gorge is a part of the Pisgah National Forest and is the third largest Wilderness in North Carolina. Lined with cliffs on either side, this 2,000 foot deep river gorge is a unique ecosystem.…
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