The HRWC implores the USFS to suspend its decision on this project until other reasonable alternatives to the Fires Creek watershed are thoroughly investigated
The smoke you see above Fires Creek is burning hard drives
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Posts About: Clay County, NC
Tiny proving ground for the future of a river
Clay is the smallest North Carolina county with only 221 square miles, yet some big water-quality dispute always is being fought here.
Clay County adopts a 10-year comprehensive plan
Citizens meeting over an 18-month period sketch a blueprint for work by future county commissions, and nothing is written in granite.
Clay County, NC Ordinances
Shewbird Mountain is one of the landmark features of the Earth’s natural beauty here in Clay County, where there are many of them.
North Carolina DENR approves expansion of a quarry on Shewbird Mountain
Harrison Construction Company has won the right to expand its crushed stone quarry on 2,902-foot Shewbird Mountain here in Clay County in the far reaches of western North Carolina.
It will likely be eight years before better maps of the mountains are made
Cherokee and Clay counties in the Hiwassee River watershed are NOT among 19 counties scheduled to be mapped by a 2014 target date.
Artificial slopes legislation is sidetracked, but NC budgets more for mountain mapping
Although it was aimed at regulating bad homebuilding, House Bill 1756, wasn’t even needed here in Cherokee County.