Source: BLUERIDGE NOW, 8/4/18

The North Carolina Council of State has approved a timber sale in the DuPont State Recreational Forest. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports the council of state recently approved the 42-acre sale at the southern end of the nearly 11,000-acre forest, which sits on the Transylvania-Henderson county border. Ranger Bruce MacDonald, communications director for DuPont Forest, said a lot of white pines were planted at the time DuPont Corp. owned the property in the 1950s and 1960s.

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