Wild North Carolina Discovering the Wonders of Our State s Natural Communities 1st Edition by David Blevins, Michael Schafale ISBN 978-0807834671 080783467X

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ISBN 10: 080783467X

ISBN 13:  978-0807834671

Author: David Blevins, Michael P. Schafale

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state’s natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina’s interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

Wild North Carolina introduces the full range of the state’s diverse natural communities, each brought to life with compelling accounts of their significance and meaning, arresting photographs featuring broad vistas and close-ups, and details on where to go to experience them first hand. Blevins and Schafale provide nature enthusiasts of all levels with the insights they need to value the state’s natural diversity, highlighting the reasons plants and animals are found where they are, as well as the challenges of conserving these special places.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction to Natural Communities

2. Spruce-Fir Forests

3. Northern Hardwood Forests

4. Grass and Heath Balds

5. High-Elevation Rock Outcrops

6. Mountain Oak Forests

7. Mountain Cove Forests

8. Dry Conifer Woodlands of the Mountains

9. Mountain Bogs and Fens

10. Upland Seepages and Spray Cliffs

11. Piedmont and Coastal Plain Oak Forests

12. Moist Hardwood Forests of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain

13. Piedmont and Mountain Rivers and Floodplains

14. Low-Elevation Cliffs and Rock Outcrops

15. Piedmont and Mountain Glades and Barrens

16. Piedmont Upland Swamps and Pools

17. Dry Longleaf Pine Woodlands

18. Wet Pine Savannas

19. Coastal Plain Blackwater Rivers and Floodplains

20. Coastal Plain Brownwater Rivers and Floodplains

21. Wet Forests of Coastal Plain Flats

22. Pocosins

23. Coastal Plain Small-Basin Communities

24. Natural-Lake Communities

25. Tidal Freshwater Swamps and Marshes

26. Salt Marshes and Sounds

27. Maritime Grasslands and Beaches

28. Maritime Forests and Thickets

29. The Future of Natural Communities

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