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Sediment Runoff Causes Fish Kill on Little Ivy Creek

Monday's rain turned the Little Ivy Creek a familiar color, brown. Taylor Barnhill has noticed the river brown after each rain storm this summer, but this time a host of dead fish washed up along the stream bank next to his property. The mud runoff was so great the fish could no longer breath in the water. What was once a thriving hatchery supported trout stream appears to have lost many smaller fish. The dead fish, including small mouth bass and northern brook trout, are a harsh reminder of the devastating impacts of having too much mud or sediment in our streams. Read more...

Asheville City Chickens Meetup

Now that Asheville's Animal Control Ordinance has been changed to be more permissive of urban chickens, it's time to shift Asheville City Chickens from a grassroots political group to a group of engaged urban chickeners interested in raising chickens in a city setting and dedicated to helping others in their endeavors. In order to facilitate that, Cathy has set up a MeetUp.com account to allow us to arrange get togethers among those interested in urban chickens in the Asheville area. Read more...

A Cat Lover Finds a Vet in Asheville, NC

Finding a vet in Asheville wasn't easy when I moved here four years ago. My three tabbies were stressed by our flight from the Rust Belt. They had lost the ten-acre farm that was their hunting ground in Northern Ohio, as well as the tender care of a gruff but well-trained farm vet, who had nurtured each of them from kitten hood into a full-fledged mouse-killing machine. Read more...