Community Events

Hemlocks & Other Old Growth Trees: Educational Walk

Highlands Biological Station · Coker Trail · Highlands, NCFree — RSVP requiredJoin the Hemlock Restoration Initiative and Highlands Biological Station for an Old Growth Forest edition of our educational hemlock walk.You’ll walk the Coker Trail beneath healthy hemlocks in an HRI Hemlock Conservation Area — and stand among some of the largest and oldest trees in the Eastern United States. Spanning roughly 3.7 acres, this rare forest remnant holds eastern hemlocks exceeding 3.3 feet in diameter, wi