Got up early and watched fog rivers rolling from the little porch off our room off the Parkway.
Traveling again at last.
Am recently returned from a long day in the upper mountain counties with a botanist friend. Posts coming about that, but first a few examples of this fall’s color and other sundries collected on Saturday and on a Parkway drive last weekend. Up first, the rose hips of Rosa palustris Marshall [...]
Friday, December 22, 2006
This August, during a visit to Tater Hill Bog, just outside of West Jefferson, I headed up the hill and into the woods with a couple of botanists in search of a seep. It was an eerie place with large boulders and lots of moss, lichen and various other growth affixed to the trees and [...]
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Cross-posted from Exile, this on bogs and savannas and more from my column.
This week’s column takes you to a couple of the state’s new Natural Areas and why we need to keep efforts like Land for Tomorrow moving forward. Also, check out I Love Mountains. I shoulda added a shout out to Mathew Gross who [...]
Looks like a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Maggie Valley is going to be closed for quite a while. A recent rockslide near the Cranberry Overlook means a lot of work ahead to shore up the mountain and reopen the road.
Link to the Citizen-Times‘ slide show.
National Park Service news
Posting from near West Jefferson.
Well, coulda sat around and listened to the end of the legislative session, but I had one of those rare opportunities to crawl around through a rhododendren hell with a couple of botanists in search of rare plants populations in a soggy, thick mountain bog. The official description of where I [...]
Watching the trout race at Great the Smoky Mountain Trout Festival in wonderful Maggie Valley.
We’ve got quite a trout heritage here in the Old North State and some fine remaining streams. But those TVA and Ohio Valley smokestacks keep cranking out the acid rain-causing hydrocarbons and people keep building right up on the buffers. Then [...]