High at the top of Toxaway Mountain thousands of baby red spruce trees are beginning great and storied lives. They burst forth from beneath the soil into a world where
Sometime around 1940, a red spruce seedling pushed above the forest floor in southern Haywood County. Its roots drank from the moist soil, and each ye.
Southern Highlands Reserve (SHR) has been tapped by the federal government to take the lead in red spruce restoration for the Southern Appalachian mountain region.