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North Carolina's stream watch program, now four years old, has become a model for similar programs across the country.
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Nearly everyone knows Daniel Boone helped settle Kentucky, but few know that this famous frontiersman lived much of his life in North Carolina.
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North Carolina's wilderness was widely explored during the 18th century by frontiersmen and plant lovers. Among them were William Bartram, Asa Gray, John Muir and Moses Ashley Curtis.
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Serious trouble stalks two of the nation's largest estuarine areas, threatening the state's eastern economy and environment. Our best hope for restoration may lie with the five-year Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley immigrated in 1870 from England to Raleigh, where their inexhaustible interest in the natural world left a lasting mark on NC. The state Museum of Natural Sciences is the most visible record of their achievements.
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Not only does this Snow Camp native build his own flintlocks and muzzleloaders, he also lives in an area that has strong historical links to the Revolutionary War.
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NC has been inhabited by humans for at least 12,000 years, and archaeologists have learned a lot about them from the many artifacts they left behind.
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744
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Crumbling dams and abandoned millstones are all that remain of the ancient gristmill trade that shaped NC.
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6061
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Fire, once considered a villain in the forest, is now used by biologists to enhance many wildlife species and to help in forest restoration. Prescribed, or controlled, burning thins forests of competing underbrush, prepares good seedbeds for replanting in logged areas, and eliminates fire danger by eliminating fuel buildup.
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Good wildlife habitats require four essential elements - food, cover, reproductive areas, and water. Taylor discusses these elements and describes how to make a backyard wildlife habitat using only 1/4-acre and a farm wildlife habitat.
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6074
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Hydrilla, a green plant native to Africa, has been found in the state's waterways, including lakes in Raleigh's Umstead Park and in Wake County. The plant forms dense mats on the water that prevent fishing and boating and that offer fertile mosquito breeding grounds. It is a difficult plant to control.
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Twenty-two Indian dugout canoes have been found in Lake Phelps. They range in size from twenty-four to thirty-seven feet. Radio-carbon dating places two of the canoes around 3,000 years old. Lake Phelps water has a preservative quality. The water is acidic and lacks the bacteria and aquatic life which eventually destroys wood.
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In a ramshackle warehouse in Lumberton, the Carolina Boat Company makes a craft called a “one or two-man boat.” The company started in the 1940s and today builds between 200 and 300 boats a year. Such boats have been used traditionally for fishing and hunting in the eastern part of the state.
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Three marsh dwellers, the native muskrat, nutria, and beaver, live in North Carolina. The nutria is a large, semi-aquatic rodent native to South America. The animal was introduced into the country in the 1930s; private interests released it in North Carolina in 1941. Nutria weigh between 15 and 20 pounds, have grayish-brown fur, a long, round tail with little hair, and are strictly vegetarian.
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Mention the word coyote, and individuals first think of the Old West. However, this animal is spreading across the country and has reached North Carolina. The population is still quite small, but it is expected to grow. Coyotes prey on rats and mice, but also feed on deer, rabbits, and even livestock. Environmentalists are concerned that the coyote will have an adverse effect on the newly started red wolf release program in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
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