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...
by don | Sep 17, 2010
The Good, The Bad and The Deadly is one of five classes that will be offered by the Asheville Mushroom Club (AMC) during its annual FungiFest, which will be held September 18 at the North Carolina Arboretum. The daylong event will include displays, classes and...
by don | Sep 9, 2010
It looks like last week’s long-billed curlew was a harbinger of things to come. A quick perusal of the Carolinas Birding List at http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CARO.html#1283714291 showed fall migrants popping up all across the Carolinas. I guess as far as...
by don | Sep 2, 2010
Birders are a restless, impatient lot. From the end of June till the end of August they walk around in a kind of stupor. You will see them occasionally stop shuffling, cock their head with hand cupped behind their ear – then mutter “wren” and shuffle on, or suddenly,...
by don | Aug 26, 2010
On August 17 federal judge Royce C. Lambeth ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of critical habitat for the federally threatened piping plover in areas of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore were in compliance with the Endangered Species Act....
by don | Aug 19, 2010
A week or so ago White House energy adviser Carol Browner was hitting the morning TV circuit, telling anyone who would listen that the majority of the more than 200 million gallons of crude that gushered into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon blow out on...
