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As a part of an effort to restore red spruce in the Southern Appalachians, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission recently worked with a host of partners, including the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Southern Highlands Reserve, Haywood Community College, and the U.S.D.A. Forest Service to plant 1150 red spruce trees along the Cherohala Skyway in North Carolina’s Graham County.

The project is designed to improve habitat for the endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel, which lives in spruce-fir/northern hardwood forests, and for which red spruce is an important source of food and shelter. Forest Service research indicates that spruce-fir and spruce-northern hardwood forests were once far more abundant, but widespread logging in the early 1900s, followed by catastrophic wildfires, damaged soil, making it hard for spruce seedlings to germinate.

Along the Cherohala Skyway, Eastern hemlocks werethe dominant evergreen tree, however their numbers are fading due to the hemlock woolly adelgid. Biologists hope the hundreds of planted red spruce will help fill the gap left by the fading hemlocks.

The trees were grown from seed by The Southern Highlands Reserve, a nonprofit native plant arboretum; with most of them planted by students from Haywood Community College’s wildlife and forestry programs.
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Janet Mizzi take a short break from planting

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