To create an expansive wildlife refuge out of small and isolated mountain bogs, it takes some patchwork and some mending. Once, there would have been about 5,000 acres of Southern Appalachian mountain ...

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina says it bought a rare 17-acre Southern Appalachian Mountain Bog in Burke County to protect the site from development. Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina ...

False asphodel, a flower that grows in the high-altitude wetlands of western North America, gets much of its nutrients from eating insects. Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on ...

A media release from Center for Biological Diversity: ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today [Nov. 25] for delaying critically needed ...

Trudging through the thorny brush, Mike Knoerr is on a quest. Thunk. Thunk. Two five-foot long wooden dowels, the width of a pool stick, are in each of his hands. Methodically, he pokes them into the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Researchers are examining mountain bogs in Georgia and other parts of the southeastern United States to gain historical clues about the climate. The Georgia Department of Natural ...