by don | Oct 21, 2010
Blue, white, lavender and purple corymbs, racemes and panicles will glow from shadowy woods and blaze from sunny meadows from now till the first hard, killing frost. Asters comprise a large beautiful complex and challenging group of wildflowers to pin down. More than...
by don | Oct 14, 2010
According to a recent report from North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Mountain Wildlife Diversity Biologist, Chris Kelly, seven of 12 nesting pairs of peregrine falcons across the mountains of North Carolina successfully fledged chicks. Last year only three...
by don | Oct 8, 2010
I decided to get out and get a breath of autumn air this morning (Sat. Oct. 2) by taking a quick tour around Lake Junaluska. It was pretty fresh and there was a little white sheen to some of the rooftops along U.S. 23/74. By the time I reached the Junaluska golf...
by don | Sep 30, 2010
Chris Canfield has stepped down as Executive Director of Audubon North Carolina to assume the position of Vice President, Gulf of Mexico Conservation and Restoration. Canfield took the helm at Audubon North Carolina in 2000 and during his 10-year tenure the...
by don | Sep 24, 2010
My family spent a wonderful sunny Sunday afternoon, this week, in the Tusquitee Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest just west of Murphy. Our first stop was the Panther Top Lookout tower on Forest Service Road 85. The 30-foot high former live-in tower was...
