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34884
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Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture has paired up with the Watauga County Public Library to create a seed library. Community members send in seeds so that community members can borrow up to 10 seed packets per season with a promise that they will return the new generation of seeds at next harvest. This has become a trend throughout North Carolina, with success at bringing back certain species back to the forefront of agriculture.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 11, April 2018, p110-114, il, por Periodical Website
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Every year since 2006, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources hosts a week-long volunteer event in order to keep track of the number of hellbenders in rivers. Hellbenders are large aquatic salamanders that have recently seen falling populations, yet are good indicators for clean water and strong populations of other aquatic species.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 11, April 2018, p146-156, il, por Periodical Website
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Two decades before Rachel Carson became a pioneer for the environmentalist movement, she laid the foundation for marine biologists through her work at a trio of islands south of Beaufort. In addition to the landmark Silent Spring is the perhaps lesser known first book, Under the Sea Wind, inspired by her experiences at Carrot, Town Marsh, and Bird Shoal.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 87 Issue 1, June 2019, p128-132, 134, 136 Periodical Website
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40536
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Living at Linville Gorge’s cliff are plants revealing ancient ecosystems long unknown and trees a retired Appalachian State professor believes are a millennium old. Support for his perspective of cliffs, which include their ecological as well as geological aspects, is a profile of the Table Mountain Pine, in addition to plants like Rock Tripe Lichen and Mountain Golden Heather.
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42755
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Mitchel County artist Nathan Favors carves bowls from irregular growth in trees known as burls. Favors works with discarded lumber trees, lost either through logging or development.
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42777
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Doug Munroe is owner of Waterfall Farm. near Warrensville. In 2006, his Vermont raised neighbor noticed Doug's abundance of sugar maples and suggested he experiment. In 2010, he started full-time in making syrup.
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43406
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"Native to all 100 counties in North Carolina, this odd fruit had been all but forgotten. A family in Watauga County intends to change that." As pawpaws are difficult to transport, they don't translate well as for industrial production. Susan Owen has done much research on pawpaws and grows both native and hybrid species.
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