The Hooper Bald Project
No bald in the Southern Appalachians has a more improbable history than Hooper. In the more than 130 years of white-man history, it has been reachable only by foot, horse, wagon, or jeep. Yet it had the first bathtubs in Graham County. The first Angus cattle in Western North Carolina fattened on its wild grass. Fourteen Russian wild boars arrived there in 1912 and the problems and pleasures caused by their progeny will make Hooper Bald remembered for generations.
