A quiet preserve of rare plants and animals. Have a look at a map of the peninsula of Florida, and you’ll see hundreds of puddles of blue down the center of the state. These are freshwater features that have existed since ancient times, when the area was a series of islands. And, where there’s water […]
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Fall begins in the Appalachians silently. The nights are crisp, and there is frost in the morning air. The harvest moon rises each night, the leaves of the deciduous trees begin their fall explosion of colors, the apples are ripe in the orchards, the corn yellow in the fields, the wild grapes purple on the
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There’s a spruce-clad knob located in the mountains of West Virginia, 4,445 feet above sea level, that is unusual in various ways. It’s Gaudineer Knob on Shavers Mountain, a part of the Cheat Mountain range, and named for Don Gaudineer, a forest ranger in the Monongahela National Forest, who lost his life 1936 trying to
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Birding West Virginia Known as the Mountaineer State, much of West Virginia’s terrain is rugged, cut with stream and river valleys. The Appalachian Mountains extend throughout the state: the Appalachian Plateau lies to the west and the Ridge and Valley region to the east. The highest mountains in the state are within the Allegheny Mountain
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