![]() Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains have long been a tourism focal point, and just on the state park side of the border with Pisgah National Forest once sat Camp Alice, rustic lodging for visitors to the Black Mountains who first arrived via train, then automobile. North Carolina’s Black Mountains are home to Mount Mitchell – the highest peak east of the Mississippi, and the centerpiece of Mount Mitchell State Park, the oldest park in the North Carolina state park system. Red spruce and Fraser fir – a rough 20 th century ![]() She organized the effort to haul 327 young red spruce trees to the site, and she mustered 38 people out on a cool, overcast May morning to put those trees in the ground - the first planting in the effort to restore red spruce in the Black Mountains, helping convert this dense blackberry thicket back to the conifer forest it once was. She brought state park and other natural resource experts to the site and phoned and emailed those who couldn’t get their boots on the ground to solicit their input. ![]() She helped secure funding so they could grow them into trees. Playing a long game, Cameron worked with staff from Southern Highlands Reserve, a non-profit arboretum and botanical garden, to gather red spruce cones from this mountain range. Image Details Sue Cameron makes her way through a field of blackberry bushes, marking spots where red spruce trees will be planted.
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