Southern Appalachian Creature Feature

The Blue Ridge Parkway, the National Park Service unit that stretches from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, along th... Read more

Roan Mountian, on the North Carolina-Tennessee border, is home to a concentration of imperiled plants and animals and a ... Read more

It’s a new year, full of promise and opportunity. It’s the annual clean slate, when we look ahead, full of thoughts abou... Read more

A lot of people in the Southern Appalachians take their fly fishing seriously. Come March, anglers will get an opportuni... Read more

Georgia aster is an uncommon plant that declined for decades, to the verge of receiving federal protection. However, thi... Read more

The view from Jane Bald is impressive. On a good day. The day I was there, the fog was socked in, accompanied by a const... Read more

Most of the kids entered the water with eager anticipation, net in hand, happily getting their shoes and shorts wet whil... Read more

Red wolves are the wolves of the south. They could once be found from Texas, across the south, and up the Atlantic coast... Read more

Daddy longlegs are one of our most common animals, and one that children key in on at an early age. Learn more about thi... Read more

Wind turbines are known for their impacts to birds, less so for impacts to bats. However, some of the bats killed by win... Read more

A team of botanists from across the Southern Appalachians join in an effort to document spreading avens, a rare plant fo... Read more

A lot of people in the Southern Appalachians take their fly fishing seriously. Come March, anglers will get an opportuni... Read more

Crows show themselves to be extremely clever animals

The Cradle of Forestry in America, in North Carolina’s Transylvania County, was the site of the nation’s first forestry ... Read more

State, federal, tribal, and private biologists have all come together in an effort to improve the plight of the rare sic... Read more

Kids In the Creek program takes 8th graders on a search for aquatic insects, fish, and an understanding of Southern Appa... Read more

With a rash of media reports of bear sightings across North Carolina, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds res... Read more

It was quite balmy in Asheville on that particular late-May morning. While the weather may be warm and clear in town, i... Read more

In the United States, the vast majority of wildlife management is done by state wildlife agencies – the same folks who i... Read more

Cold weather has descended upon the Southern Appalachians and on some mornings, perhaps most mornings, soft, warm flanne... Read more