Source: Jack Igelman, CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 12/23/20


Sandy Mush landowner Vance Garrett has been fighting the advancement of nonnative invasive plant species on his property in the rural northwest corner of Buncombe County for more than three decades at considerable expense. “I’ve been in the business for a long time just trying to keep them beat back,” said the 84-year-old, who owns roughly 200 acres of mostly forested land in the Newfound Mountains that hem the western boundary of the Sandy Mush community.

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