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 Check out these websites for more background information on the GNSA:
Links to media coverage of the GNSA: January 17, 2008: "Forest Service Rejects Globe Appeal, Commits to Continued Dialogue," by Sam Calhoun. High Country Press. "...In late 2006, the Blowing Rock Town Council, the Boone Town Council and
the Watauga County Board of Commissioners passed unanimous resolutions opposing the logging and calling for the creation of
the Grandfather National Scenic Area to permanently protect the forest basin..." "...old growth trees ranging in age from 100 to 300 years old exist in the Globe,
a valley forest located a few miles south of downtown Blowing Rock..." "...One activist group,
Friends of Grandfather/Blowing Rock Scenic Views, is asking for federal legislation to designate more than 20,000 acres of
the Pisgah forest as the Grandfather National Scenic Area to prohibit most logging and preserve views from Grandfather Mountain
and the Blue Ridge Parkway. If
the Forest Service doesn't come up with a good alternative plan, that act may well be needed." |