The N.C. General Assembly cut funding for landslide mapping in 2011, a decision area officials and scientists attribute to a combination of revenue shortfalls and lobbying by development interests. The state is now allocating $3.6 million for a new mapping project in the wake of multiple landslides this summer.
![Aftermath of a landslide with two workers looking over a tangle of dead vegetation.](https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/20180523_091909-330x186.jpg)