Exploring North Carolina s Natural Areas

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North Carolina boasts a natural environment of exceptional richness and diversity. From the mountains to the coast, the state is home to an extraordinary variety of publicly accessible sites that showcase aspects of its ecology, geology, biology, and natural history. This book leads the reader on thirty-eight field trips to some of the most interesting and instructive of these natural landscapes.

Written by leading naturalists from across the state, this collection of "eco-tours" includes excursions to each of its four major regions: the coast, the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the mountains. Each trip traces a thirty- to seventy-mile driving route that connects preserved areas, hiking trails, scenic overlooks, nature trails, and other sites of interest. All entries provide a map of the route, describe what can be seen and learned along the way, and discuss especially noteworthy features.

An essential resource for anyone who treasures North Carolina's natural heritage, this book will inspire and inform travelers throughout the Tar Heel state.

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Publié par	The University of North Carolina Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798890872548
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	13 Mo

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Exploring North Carolina’s Natural Areas

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Exploring North Carolina’s Natural Areas

Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking Trails

edited by dirk frankenberg

The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London

Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Maps by Eric Ringler, Polaris Cartography Manufactured in the United States of America

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Exploring North Carolina’s natural areas: parks,

nature preserves, and hiking trails / edited by Dirk Frankenberg p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) isbn0-8078-2547-6 (cloth: alk. paper) — isbn0-8078-4851-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Natural areas—North Carolina—Guidebooks. 2. Natural history—North Carolina—Guidebooks. 3. Ecotourism—North Carolina. 4. North Carolina— Guidebooks.i.Frankenberg, Dirk. qh76.5.n8 e862000 508.756—dc21 99-055917

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This book is dedicated to the citizens of the state of North Carolina,

the good people who, through public and private e√orts, have preserved

for future generations natural areas like those that ﬁrst led our state to

be called ‘‘the goodliest land under the cope of Heaven.’’

Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1 dirk frankenberg

The Coast

Old and New on the Outer Banks: Maritime Forests, Inlets, and Development 17 dirk frankenberg

Outer Banks from Ocracoke to Pea Island: Merging of Sand and Sea 28 stanley r. riggs

Downeast Lowlands: Being Swallowed by the Sea 41 stanley r. riggs and dirk frankenberg

Bogue Banks: Natural Habitats on a Developed Shoreline 54 dirk frankenberg

The Coastal Plain

Currituck Sound’s Mackay Island 91 yates m. barber

Wetlands, Swamps, and Forests: Merchants Millpond to the Great Dismal Swamp 99 henry c. hammond and penny learysmith

Lower Roanoke River Floodplain: Swamps and Wetlands 106 ida phillips lynch and j. merrill lynch

White Oak River from Source to Sea: Natural Communities on a Blackwater River 62 dirk frankenberg

Lower Cape Fear River by Car and Ferry 70 dirk frankenberg

Brunswick County: Savanna to the Sea 78 dirk frankenberg

Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula: Pocosin Lakes and Wetlands 117 b. j. copeland and lundie spence

Where Fresh and Salt Water Meet: The Upper Pamlico River Estuary 125 vince bellis

Croatan National Forest: Wetlands and Wildﬂowers 134 jean w. kraus

Carolina Bay Lakes: Lake Waccamaw and Bladen Lakes 145 diane lauritsen

Southern Lumber River Region 152 staff of lumber river state park

The Piedmont

Rocks, Soils, and Plant Life in the Central Piedmont 167 harry legrand

Ecological Succession and Old-Growth Forests of the Central Piedmont 175 phillip manning

Nature amidst Development: Wake County Natural Areas 184 laura white and mark johns

Coastal Plain to Piedmont Transition: Natural Communities of the Sandhills and Uwharrie Mountain Regions 193 alan weakley

Uwharrie Lakes Scenic Loop: Grassy Island Crossing and Indian Heritage Trail 207 alex cousins

Land of the Longleaf Pine: Weymouth Woods and the Sandhills 156 kim hyre and scott hartley

Uwharrie Minerals and Landscapes: Origins and Use 213 jeff michael

Lonely Mountains: The Sauratowns from Hanging Rock to Pilot Mountain State Parks 221 marshall ellis

The South Mountains Area 233 anne l. maker

Parks, Forests, and Geology of the Southwest Piedmont 239 deidri sarver

The Mountains

Northwestern Mountains: Stone Mountain, Mount Je√erson, and New River State Parks 251 marshall ellis

Blue Ridge Parkway: Grandfather Mountain Region 261 curtis smalling

Roan Mountain Highlands: Ecology, Geology, and Cultural History 270 elizabeth hunter

Linville Gorge: Deepest Wilderness Area in the Eastern United States 281 allen de hart

Mountain Touring: Linville Falls to Mount Mitchell through Gorges, Peaks, and Forests 291 michael p. schafale

Forest Communities of the Southern Appalachians: Asheville to Mount Mitchell 303 carleton burke

Big Ivy Road to Craggy Mountain Scenic Area 316 ron lance

Suggestions for Further Reading 381

Contributor A≈liations 387

Index 389

Great Smoky Mountains National Park 322 dirk frankenberg

Hickory Nut Gorge: A Scenic Approach to the North Carolina Mountains 326 elisabeth feil

Blue Ridge Parkway Tour: Asheville to Cherokee 335 j. dan pittillo

Our Forest Heritage and Forestry Today 348 cindy carpenter

Cherohala Skyway to Joyce Kilmer Forest 359 j. dan pittillo

Blue Ridge Escarpment: Gorges of Lake Jocassee 367 gary kauffman

Preface

This book owes its origins to the tagline of a previous book of mine, which characterized it as ‘‘an ecotourist’s guide to the North Carolina coast.’’ That phrase led Anne Taylor, director of the O≈ce of Environmental Education of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to corner me at a meeting and ask, ‘‘What can you and others like you do to help people better understand and appreciate North Carolina’s natural heritage?’’ This led to a meet-ing of authors of books about the state’s natural history to discuss her question in the summer of 1997. That meeting hatched the idea of a book that would present driving tours of some of the state’s most attractive and interesting natural areas, identify learning experiences in each tour, and make the tours and experiences accessible to a wide general audience, from schoolchildren to adults. The authors and other consulting naturalists worked together to develop a ‘‘must include’’ list of natural areas for the book. The areas included here were suggested by several naturalists, but many other suggested areas could not be included. As a result, we know that there are more great natural places in North Carolina than those described in this book. We see the present book as a ﬁrst step in a continuing process of describing the state’s natural areas for the public, and we hope a series of similar publications will follow from this one. The authors also agreed to allow their work to be used as the basis for ‘‘virtual ﬁeldtrips,’’ made available to schools over the Internet. We hope these virtual trips—now included in the multimedia area of the Learn NC website (http://www.learnnc.org)—will help meet the goal of making the book’s content accessible to schoolchildren. As you will see from the table of contents, the book is organized into ﬁve sections. The introduction is an overview of the state’s geology, climate, and plant and animal life. This section is designed to introduce readers to the environmental processes that form and sustain the natural heritage of our state. The other four sections of the book describe tours of natural areas in the Coast, Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountain Regions of the state. Each tour can be accomplished in less than a day, but each can be expanded to several days if visitors choose to explore all stops along the route. Each tour has a map of the recommended route and identiﬁes the things to be seen and learned along the way. Photographs are included of sites along most of the tour routes. Many avenues for further reading and study are opened up by the broad range

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Environmental Protection

Environmental Conservation

Croatan National Forest

Linville Gorge Wilderness

Currituck Sound

Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge

Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula

Pilot Mountain

Great Dismal Swamp

Grandfather Mountain

Lake Waccamaw

Mount Jefferson

Roanoke River

Great Smoky Mountains

White Oak River

Cape Fear River

Brunswick County

Blue Ridge Parkway

Mount Mitchell

Asheville, North Carolina

Wake County, North Carolina

Coast

Mont Jefferson

Cape Fear (fleuve)

Outer Banks

Ocracoke

Asheville

Parc national des Great Smoky Mountains

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