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The Hemlock Restoration Initiative is protecting hemlocks in North Carolina. Please visit our website for more information: savehemlocksnc.org

The Hemlock Restoration Initiative is a joint effort of the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) and WNC Communities to ensure that, by 2025, Eastern and Carolina hemlocks in North Carolina can resist the deadly hemlock woolly adelgid and survive to maturity. We are all about finding and supporting solutions to this massive forest health challenge.

10/16/2026

Are you looking to learn more about hemlock chemical treatment? Join HRI and ForestHer NC for an HWA Management Workshop at Carolina Hemlocks Campground on November 9th, 2026. We will cover everything you need to know to treat your own hemlocks to protect against invasive hemlock woolly adelgid - from assessing your hemlock's health to the process of insecticide mixing and application.

CE credits available for pesticide applicators, ISA members, and SAF Certified Foresters.

For more details and to register, visit the events page at the link in our bio.

10/14/2026

📢Volunteer Opportunity📢

Help our crew chemically treat hemlocks at the Carolina Hemlocks Campground in Pisgah National Forest (near Burnsville, NC)! We are looking forward to giving these hemlocks some care and support to help them recover from the ongoing impacts of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid and would like your help.

This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to treat hemlocks on the more accessible terrain of a campground. Visit our events page at the link in our bio for more information and to register.

10/12/2026

We had such a blast with everyone who came out to our Hemlocks and Other Old Growth Trees walk at the Highlands Biological Station. Extra special thank you to Liam Stiefel, who added so much to the day by speaking about his research on the old growth trees we were walking under. We got to see the oldest known hemlock in the Southern Appalachians, which is not something you get to see every day!

Want to join on our next hike? We will be at DuPont State Recreational Forest in November, and we'll be talking about our Integrated Pest Management strategies to combat HWA. Find more information and registration on our website.

10/09/2026

Join HRI on an educational hike at DuPont State Recreational Forest. We will talk about hemlocks, the hemlock woolly adelgid, and the different management strategies in our Integrated Pest Management toolbox. We will pass through active research plots and discuss the work that is being done to find the best way(s) to protect our hemlocks for years to come.

This event is free, but registration is required. Please visit our website for more information and to register.

10/07/2026

The Hemlock Restoration Initiative could not do what we do without the help of our hard-working volunteers. Each newsletter we like to highlight the contributions of our volunteers. In this issue we would like to recognize Stephen “Reno” Mihalik. We would like to dually designate this piece as our Conservation Connection Corner. This section of our newsletter features the work of people in our region who have gone above and beyond to conserve hemlocks in their own communities. They are often people who have taken initiative to address the HWA problem on their own, without having received direct prompting from HRI. Reno matches both of these descriptions.

Visit our website or follow the link in our bio to read more about Reno in our Summer 2026 Newsletter!

10/05/2026

Help save the hemlocks at Grandfather Mountain State Park! We need your help at our Hemlock Treatment Volunteer Workday on Saturday, October 24th. Registration is required - the registration form link and more details about this volunteer workday can be found in the Events section of our website.

10/02/2026

Sarah Gelleny, HRI’s ’25-’26 AmeriCorps Project Conserve (ACPC) Naturalist and Stewardship Associate, wrote this wonderful piece about her experience in one of HRI's Hemlock Conservation Areas recently burned by wildfire. Follow the link in our bio to read it in full in our Summer 2026 Newsletter!

Throughout Sarah's AmeriCorps term, she conducted hemlock treatments, documented ecological observations and information, and expanded our creative outputs. She focused on hemlock relationships to organisms beyond the hemlock woolly adelgid and how these relationships impact our work. She comes from a background in ecological art, starting in the realm of environmental connection in urban spaces. The past two years she has shifted into looking at art ecology, specifically in the Southern Appalachian region where she is from.

09/30/2026

Help us protect hemlocks from HWA in Pisgah National Forest! Join Hemlock Restoration Initiative at Upper Creek in Pisgah National Forest (about 30 minutes north of Morganton, NC) for a Hemlock Treatment Volunteer Workday on Saturday, October 17, 2026 from 10am-4pm.

Registration is required. To register, please visit our website (link in bio!). More details about meeting location and what to bring will be provided after registration.

09/28/2026

Are you interested in hemlocks AND pollinators? Then this article is just for you! Read more in our Summer 2026 Newsletter about a USDA Forest Service study that found increased pollinator populations in a silviculture hemlock plot. Find the link for the newsletter in our bio and posted on our website!

09/22/2026

HRI Forestry Technician GIS Specialist, Emma Proietti, recounts our work at Bell Park near Saluda. Read all about it in our Summer 2026 Newsletter at the link in our bio!

Address

594 Brevard Road
Asheville, NC
28806

Telephone

+18282524783

Website

https://savehemlocksnc.org/, https://linktr.ee/HemlockRestorationInitiative

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