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Touch-me-nots and poison ivy
Published: 2009-08-12 13:29:00Jewelweed, or “touch-me-not,” is one of the most appealing wildflowers commonly encountered throughout Western North Carolina. Many recognize the plant from the time it appears in early spring as a pale green seedling, on through the long and showy s...
Read MoreAn eye for mountains: An Ansel Adams of the Smokies, George Masa was one of the greatest photographers of his era. So why have so many people never heard of him?
Published: 2009-08-12 13:21:00By Michael Beadle There’s a view on the way up to Clingmans Dome, an overlook where a maze of finger-like ridges unfurl at your feet and spread across the landscape before tumbling into the Oconaluftee River Valley below. Surveying this vast, unspoiled...
Read MoreLetting nature point the way
Published: 2009-08-05 20:02:00Horace Kephart is best known for Our Southern Highlanders (first published in 1913, with an expanded edition in 1922) and his role in helping to found the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But he also published a book that is now recognized as one of ...
Read MoreA fine flower to start with
Published: 2009-07-29 19:08:00One of the best pieces of advice I ever received in regard to learning wildflowers was to “concentrate on one family at a time.” The person advising me didn’t, of course, intend that I should devote my attention exclusively to the species in a give...
Read MoreWildflowers peaking right now
Published: 2009-07-22 19:04:00Interesting wildflowers appear throughout Western North Carolina from late February into early November. Most wildflower identification and observation takes place during the spring. All too often the subsequent seasons are ignored. The three peak period...
Read MorePawpaw is unique among fruits
Published: 2009-07-15 19:59:00(Editors Note: George Ellison is on leave this week. But he says that his pawpaw trees have even more fruit on them this year than they did when he wrote this about them last year.) Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch Where, oh where, is dear little Nel...
Read MoreMountains of mushrooms
Published: 2009-06-24 16:33:00Is this going to be a bumper year for wild mushrooms? Maybe so, if the rainfall we have been experiencing in recent weeks continues to any significant extent into late summer and fall. My wife, Elizabeth, and our youngest daughter, Quintin, went on a mus...
Read MoreNortherners in our southern climes
Published: 2009-06-17 19:43:00Elevations above 4,000 feet in the Blue Ridge Province can be thought of as a peninsula of northern terrain extending into the southeastern United States, where typical flora and fauna of northeastern and southeastern North America intermingle. Many plan...
Read MoreFamilies sacrifice land for creation of the park
Published: 2009-06-17 19:28:00Gudger Palmer has never forgotten the fond memories of growing up in Cataloochee Valley. At 100 years old, one memory in particular brings a smile to his lips every time he returns to his old one-room school. “That’s the place where the greatest love...
Read MoreCaught in the spider’s alluring web
Published: 2009-06-10 19:14:00Spiders are one of the most interesting — and sometimes disconcerting — critters to observe. Especially fascinating, to me, are the various webs they create to capture prey and provide themselves with protection. Spiders are often confused with insec...
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