The vast forests of longleaf pine that once covered the Coastal Plain are gone forever, but landowners are rediscovering the virtues of our state tree.
Thurston Gaskill has been leading hunting and fishing parties in the Pamlico Sound all his life. The veteran guide has witnessed many changes during that time.
Our wetlands are disappearing rapidly, but new programs such as the \"swampbuster\" provision of the 1985 Farm Bill and the National Wetlands Inventory are expected to help.
The new book, \"North Carolina WILD Places: A Closer Look,\" surveys the various types of natural habitats existing in North Carolina, from mountains to coast and places in between.
The existing dilemma in Currituck County is how to make development coexist with the preservation of this unique area. The issue of accessibility to the area in the face of an increasing population is particularly troubling.
Countless reptiles and amphibians are being collected across North Carolina and sold both legally and illegally; the growing international black market threatens to wipe out rare species.