Native Plants

Native Plants

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Western North Carolina is covered with plants indigenous to the Appalachian Mountains. Here is a short list of the plants found throughout the Linville Falls area. Flowering Plants Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) This small tree features North Carolina’s...
European Wild Boars

European Wild Boars

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In the long history of invasive species in Appalachia, no story is more striking that that of the European wild boar. Often called Russian boars. . .

Extinct Species

Extinct Species

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The Appalachian region is the home of more species of plants and animals than any other temperate forest on earth. Through the long stretch of geological time, life forms have come and gone.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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America’s first National Parks were created out West.  By the early 20th century, Easterners who feared the loss of nature in their rapidly industrializing region wanted their own park.  Businessmen and outdoorsmen in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, led...
Old Growth Forests

Old Growth Forests

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Old-Growth forests conjures up visions of the great forests that once covered most of eastern north America, and of towering trees undisturbed by logging and human settlement. They provide a vital link to our environmental past and are the preferred and sometime only habitat of a number of species.