The Southern Appalachians stretch to their tallest atop North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell, and there are more old-growth stands in these North Carolina mountains than anywhere else in the Southeast. They are also home to a wide range of plants and animals, many of them rare, threatened or endangered.

A Campaign for Wilderness
North Carolina is well-represented in the National Wilderness Preservation System, with 111,342 acres of designated Wilderness on four National Forests and one Wildlife Refuge. But there's much more that deserves Wilderness protection and that's the goal of North Carolina Wild, a coalition of Wilderness activists. The group has developed a citizen's proposal to protect Harper's Creek and Lost Cove as Wilderness on the Pisgah National Forest.
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Our Partners in North Carolina
The Wilderness Society works with numerous conservation organizations in North Carolina, including: Appalachian Voices, Western North Carolina Alliance, National Audubon Society-North Carolina, Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, and Southern Environmental Law Center.
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