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Protect Pisgah Party + Rally for the Forest

U.S. Forest Service Headquarters 160 Zillicoa Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Eight environmental organizations and a coalition of more than 100 local businesses are organizing a rally to protect the country’s most popular national forest! The Protect Pisgah Party + Rally for the Forest will highlight the vast, overwhelming public and political support for protecting the Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest. The rally will be held outside the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) headquarters in Asheville on Monday, August 1 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., just before a week of decisive meetings.

Free

HCHRW Nonnative Invasive Plant Removal Workday

Come join the Nonnative Invasive Plant workday in the High Country on August 4th from 3-5 p.m. We will be working to eradicate invasives. Bring your love of native plants and your desire to keep Western NC beautiful!

Free

HCHRW Nonnative Invasive Plant Removal 8/18/22

Come join the Nonnative Invasive Plant workday in the High Country on August 18th from 3-5 p.m. We will be working to eradicate invasives. Bring your love of native plants and your desire to keep Western NC beautiful!

Free

Riverkeeper Float Fest in Todd, NC 8/20/22

Come out for the long-awaited return of Riverkeeper Float Fest sponsored by Appalachian Mountain Brewery, and hosted by River & Earth Adventures. Proceeds benefit MountainTrue’s Watauga Riverkeeper and help protect clean water in the High Country.

This will be a family-friendly, experiential educational event and a fun day out on the water. but all participants are welcome all day at the River and Earth Adventures outpost for the festival. The riverside fest will have a barbecue with volleyball, cornhole and other yard games and live music. MountainTrue staff and Riverkeepers will lead environmental education activities including kick-net sampling for macroinvertebrates, snorkel tours and watershed modeling. There will also be Fly Fishing demos from Boone's Fly Shop and High Country Guide Service. Opportunities for a tubing the New River as well as a tie up tube city scene will be available.

$25