Old-growth forests in North Carolina can be found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the Nantahala National Forest, and in Pisgah National Forest.
The battle was long and hard fought, but the winners are some of the remaining wetlands in the nation and their priceless wildlife. The victory is one that future generations will surely celebrate.
Four years have passed since fire swept 45,000 acres of the Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County, leaving a blackened wasteland. Today, wildlife has rebounded.
The battle lines are drawn in Eastern North Carolina over whether the state can preserve its valuable and vanishing wetlands and still produce an endless supply of pulp and sawtimber.
B. W. Wells found his life's work in a field of wildflowers near Burgaw and changed not only his thinking but also the way we look at North Carolina's landscape.
A partnership between private groups and state government is playing a big role in funding the protection of unique natural areas like the Walcott Tract in North Carolina.
For centuries humans have reveled in the beauty of the live oak, sat in its shade, and used its sturdy wood. Today the destruction of the maritime forests in North Carolina and the Southeast imperils the future of this tree.
Small, scattered and disappearing, mountain bogs are some of our rarest habitats and contain some of the least common plants and animals. Yet we know almost nothing about these tiny, isolated worlds.