Editor’s note: A version of this story was originally published in December 2020. In the spring of 2020, Brett Dupree went to the McDowell Nature Preserve in southwest Charlotte in search of an ...

Four years after the ice storm killed close to 200 trees at Woodward Park, some very large reinforcements have arrived. The 15 oak trees weigh close to 6,000 pounds. Maureen Turner, Operations Manager ...