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North Carolina's status as one of the most biologically diverse states in the nation, with more than 100 different natural ecosystems, attracts admiring photographers from near and far.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 62 Issue 1, June 1994, p26-27, il
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Adams describes the maritime forests of the Outer Banks, areas that shelter habitats ecologically rich and hauntingly beautiful. These forests are some of the finest and most accessible ones in the state. They are Currituck Banks, Kitty Hawk Woods, Nags Head Woods, Buxton Woods, Shackelford Banks, Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area, and Bear Island. Buxton Woods is the largest of the group.
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Adams takes the reader off the beaten path to explore some of the state's most picturesque waterfalls. These include waterfalls on the Linville, Horsepasture, Whitewater, Cullasaja, Big Creek, Little, East Fork Pigeon, and West Fork Pigeon rivers. Directions to each of the falls are included.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 9, Feb 2004, p116-118, 120-121, il Periodical Website
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Five groups of carnivorous plants are found in all regions of the state, but are most common in the Coastal Plain. In recent years the environment where these plants grow is being destroyed as wetlands are being drained for housing developments, pine plantations, and golf courses. Plant poaching is also a serious threat for some species. Adams describes each of the five groups of plants: Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, bladderwort, butterwort, and sundew.
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Salamanders are populous all across the state. These creatures belong to the order Caudata, comprised of seven families in North America, and all found in North Carolina. Adams describes a number of them, including the two-toed amphiuma which, at four feet, is the state's largest salamander and one of the largest in the world.
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“The summer flowering episode is my favorite, particularly in the mountain region,” says Adams. ”Beginning around mid-July and lasting into September, the roadsides become an exciting hodgepodge of vivid yellows, purples, and reds.” The flowers that Adams describes are summer wildflowers. Spring wildflowers have plenty of sunshine to grow in, but the summer ones must compete for the light. This makes them grow tall, big, and in thick clusters. Such growth makes for good viewing of their blossoms either on road shoulders or in adjoining fields. He describes wildflower viewing in the following areas: Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Ashe and Alleghany Counties, U.S. Highway 19, and Nantahala and Pisgah national forests.
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Fourteen species of gulls can be observed in North Carolina, depending on the season of the year, location, and being in the right place at the right time. Of that number, only three nest in the state-–the laughing gull, ring-billed gull, and herring gull. The other eleven gulls range from locally common to extremely rare. Adams describes physical features of the gulls and some of their behaviors, such as dropping shells onto rocks to break them open for food.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 4, Sept 2004, p162-163, 165, il Periodical Website
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Few people can walk along a beach and not be attracted by the wide variety of seashells, which are the calcium carbonate homes for a large, diverse group of invertebrates called mollusks. Early civilizations used them for utensils and currency and to make dyes. Today people eat them, wear them as jewelry, and use them for road building. The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort houses one of the largest seashell collection in the country, the Watson Shell Collection.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 11, Apr 2005, p45-46, 48, 50, il Periodical Website
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Monarch butterflies begin their migration to Mexico from southern Canada and the eastern United States in late August. Many of the 100 million travelers will not complete the 3,000-mile journey, but their descendants will. Females lay eggs along the route, then die. The eggs hatch into the larval stage, then through all stages, till the new butterflies emerges. It may take several generations to reach Mexico and several to make it back to Canada, where the cycle begins again. In mid-September the monarchs pass through North Carolina. The best areas to view them are along the beaches and the gaps along the Blue Ridge Parkway and other mountain roads.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 4, Sept 2005, p158-160, 162, 164, il Periodical Website
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The bald cypress tree, while not a true cypress, has played a part in North Carolina history for over 4,500 years. The tree grows in wet, swampy areas, often in standing water. At Phelps Lake in Washington County 30 dugout canoes made of bald cypress by Native Americans were found; the oldest canoe dates back to around 2430 B.C. The bald cypress was popular with colonists, who used it in ship building, fence making, and other types of construction. The greatest use of the tree was in making house shingles. At the start of the Civil War, a company, founded in the Dismal Swamp by George Washington, was shipping a million and a half shingles a year. Logging felled most of the state's old-growth bald cypress trees during the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, though some remain in out-of-the-way swamps. One tree in Three Sisters Swamp in Pender County is 1,600 years old, making it the oldest documented living thing in the eastern United States.
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