I wish to invite the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Asheville business leaders and philanthropists to join 15,000-plus of us in preserving a calm, cool, green forest with 100- to 200-year-old trees towering overhead that is walkable to thousands of people, just 1 mile from downtown Asheville.
This is currently UNC Asheville’s 45-acre urban forest. With that forest right here, there’s no need to get in our cars and drive 45-60 minutes fighting the traffic to get into nature.
Like what Julian Price’s vision and resources did for saving Asheville in the 1990s, we need visionaries to think big and to join us in permanently preserving this priceless, irreplaceable mature forest ecosystem that other cities would die for…