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Western North Carolina Nature Center
Like a field trip into the western North Carolina outdoors, this site will introduce you to the plants, animals and environs of the Southern Appalachians.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Why are the rocks and plant communities of Roan Mountain interesting to natural scientists?
In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 2
The rocks of Roan Mountain are interesting because of their age, their mineralogy, and the evidence they provide about the geological processes that formed them. The plant communities are interesting because they are southern examples of communities usually...
By Dirk Frankenberg and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.
Rip Van Winkle
The classic short story by Washington Irving, in which the title character walks into the Catskill Mountains, drinks a magic draught, and falls asleep for twenty years, missing the American Revolution and the changes it wrought.
Format: story