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Should the Hawthorn Be Saved?
These trees once proliferated wildly across eastern North America, but now they’re dying out.
The last time Ron Lance had visited Doggett Gap in western North Carolina, he photographed one of the premier sites for hawthorn trees in the American Southeast. George Yatskievych, a botanist at the University of Texas at Austin, believes that hawthorn mania was a reflection of botany itself, which had advanced enough by 1890 to take on complicated plant groups. Alongside North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway, for instance, you can find the balsam-mountain hawthorn—a rare species that grows on only one mountain range.
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