#blue ridge parkway

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I’m hopeful that you can rake the muck a bit and get some direct answers as to who is responsible for the installation of cameras on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I was up t

Consider the dead tree. To the living things of the forest, and to the environmentalists who love them, a dead tree is critical infrastructure. A standing one — a snag — may house beetle larvae, which are eaten by woodpeckers, who excavate the soften

The town of Biltmore Forest has an irregular, oblong shape, hemmed as it is on all sides by natural and manmade barriers: Interstate 40 to the north; Hendersonville Road to the east; the Blue Ridge Parkway to the south; and, to the west, the thick wo

At stake inside a Buncombe County courtroom were a grandfather’s legacy and a family’s inheritance. Asheville real estate investor Robert Perry Tucker II had just purchased 10 acres along the Blue Ridge Parkway, but nine siblings in the Lyda family s