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for "Earley, Lawrence S."
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6043
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John Lawson - Englishman, gentleman, and explorer - set forth in 1700 on a 59-day journey from Charleston, South Carolina, to Washington, North Carolina. He wasn't the first European to explore North Carolina, but he was, perhaps, the most observant. Lawson kept a journal in which he recorded the plants and animals he saw, the rivers he crossed, and the names and customs of Indian tribes he met. Journal excerpts are included.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 12, Dec 1981,
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6065
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Rising 5,100 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Bluff Mountain, near West Jefferson, is a treasure chest of botanical riches. Forty-two rare, endangered animals and flowering plants, including the bog turtle, wood lily, and sundew, are found there. An unusual feature of the mountain is a highland plateau that contains the only fen in the southern Appalachians.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 46 Issue 5, May 1982,
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6070
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Gunsmithing has a long history in North Carolina, dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries in Salem, Salisbury, and Jamestown. Richard Gatling and David \"Carbine\" Williams are among the famous gunsmiths in this ancient and demanding craft. Earley profiles three of the best in the 20th century: Hal Hartley of Lenoir; John Bivins, Jr., of Winston-Salem; and Joe Balickie of Apex.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 46 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
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6393
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In areas hit hard by storms, including Hurricane Hugo, the population of red-cockaded woodpeckers has declined. This is because the storms wreaked havoc on live, old trees, which the woodpeckers need to build their nest cavities. Now a simple nesting device developed by North Carolina Wildlife Commission non-game biologist David Allen is helping the population recover.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 68 Issue 2, Feb 2004,
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6587
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One North Carolina Naturally (ONCN), the new conservation program of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, seeks to protect the state's diminishing open spaces. The plan is an attempt to focus nonprofit and government conservation efforts in three program areas: Green Lands, Blue Waters - protection of one million acres of land by 2010; Private Lands, Public Benefits - stewardship of natural resources on privately owned farms and forests; and Working on the Water - restoration of sounds and ocean habitats.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 68 Issue 4, Apr 2004,
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6910
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Freshwater mussels benefit the environment by cleaning water as they filter it for food particles. Because many of the mussels are classified as endangered, their presence in a particular location can cause trouble with plans for growth and development. Since 1999, one hundred and nine road projects were delayed in North Carolina while local ordinances, stormwater controls and other measures were put into place to safeguard the federally protected mussels. Early encourages smart planning to direct growth to where it will do the least harm to one of the most threatened natural resources in the state.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 68 Issue 11, Nov 2004,
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7498
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Savannas were once a common feature of the vast longleaf pine forests of the Southeast. These open, wildflower-strewn landscapes were much admired by early explorers and botanists. Their numbers are diminished today, and many have vanished altogether. Early discusses reasons for the savanna's decline and what is being done to restore and maintain existing ones. Among North Carolina's remaining savannas are the B. W. Wells Savanna (Pender County); Holly Shelter game Land (Pender County); Green Swamp Preserve (Brunswick County); and Boiling Spring Lakes Wetland Complex (Brunswick County).
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 69 Issue 10, Oct 2005,
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7878
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Three kinds of flounders are found along the state's coast--the summer flounder, the southern flounder, and the Gulf flounder. The summer flounder is the most common. Its flat shape makes for a life spent at the bottoms of estuaries and tidal creeks. The flounder hunts by covering itself with sand and ambushing its prey. It has the ability to camouflage itself to match its surroundings. It is also famous for its taste, especially after it has been stuffed with crab meat and dredged in butter.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 6, June 1991,
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The tiger salamander's name comes from its coloration which features dark yellow spots and bars across a dark background. It grows to lengths of seven to eleven inches. It is an extremely difficult creature to find, as it spends ten months of the year beneath the surface of the ground feeding on earthworms and other insects. It leaves its burrow in December and January to breed in nearby ponds and then goes back underground. Although tiger salamanders were once widespread across the state, they are now confined to the edge of the Sandhills in Robeson, Hoke, and Scotland Counties.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1990,
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7931
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About twenty-five species of sturgeon are distributed throughout the northern hemisphere and nowhere else in the world. The Atlantic sturgeon which inhabits North Carolina's waterways is among two groups of fish that migrate between salt and freshwater systems. It is the state's largest inland fish and can reach twelve feet in length and weigh over 500 pounds. This fish mates between late March and May and prefers rivers like the Cape Fear, Tar, Roanoke, and Chowan. Until 1900, the Atlantic sturgeon was one of the state's chief commercial fisheries. Overfishing caused its numbers to plummet, and the sturgeon population remains small into the twenty-first century.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 54 Issue 3, Mar 1990,
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The Black River begins in Sampson County and flows sixty-six miles before emptying into the Cape Fear River fourteen miles above Wilmington. The water is black because unlike the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, the Black River does not have sediment deposits, and its water is more acidic. Earley traveled two months on the river discovering its history and exploring the natural surroundings. Once a commercial thoroughfare, the river has again returned to its ancient ways. The steamboats and naval stores industry are gone. Some of the towns have fallen into ruin. No industries pollute it; no dams interrupt it; and no reservoirs disturb its flooding patterns.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 50 Issue 9, Sept 1986,
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8734
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Asheville photographer Tim Barnwell's black-and-white pictures chronicle the traditional mountain life of western North Carolina, a way of life that has almost disappeared and persists today only in remote mountain coves. Barnwell is a native of Marshall. His project started in 1978 as a magazine assignment for the now-defunct MOUNTAIN LIVING magazine. It has continued well beyond the magazine's demise.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 50 Issue 10, Oct 1986,
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8760
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On July 30, 1936, fifty guests and scores of U.S. Forest Service personnel gathered near Robbinsville to listen to a message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicating the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. The forest, 3,800 acres of woodland lying in Graham County, is the last virgin forest on the East Coast and constitutes one of the remnants of the original forest that covered the slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. It has never been touched by an axe and will remain so. It was dedicated to the American soldier-poet, Joyce Kilmer, who wrote the famous poem “Trees,\" and was later killed in World War I on July 30, 1918.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 50 Issue 11, Nov 1986,
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Warblers either visit or nest in North Carolina. They are among the hardest birds to find and to identify because they are all the same size and come in a confusing array of colors and share similar field marks and songs.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 9, Sept 1981,
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Blanton Saunders, who lives around the Currituck Sound, has been a guide, decoy maker, skiff-builder, and chronicler of the old ways of living on the Outer Banks. Now 72, he looks back on a way of life that is disappearing.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 11, Nov 1981,
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