Environment and Nature

Land deal could protect Box Creek Wilderness

24 May 2012

MORGANTON — The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Natural Heritage Program’s (NHP) Advisory Committee recommended the state enter into a registry agreement with the landowner of the privately held 3,300-acre Box Creek Wilderness, a state-designated Significant Natural Heritage Area (SNHA) on the Rutherford-McDowell county line.

Letters to editor May 25

24 May 2012

Handle nature with common sense Two of my passions in life have been nature and wildlife, which led me to study biology and wildlife management in university.[...]

Feeding a hungry world – or meddling with laws of nature?

24 May 2012

Three senior scientists made impassioned appeals yesterday to anti-GM campaigners not to destroy a field trial of GM wheat which is the culmination of several years' work.