Southern Biosphere

Postings on the environment, outdoor adventure, issues relating to Appalachia and the South. Topics will range from trout fishing to archaeology and water quality, based on my work as a journalist.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Forgotten lessons

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Flame azalea shows off in the recently purchased Nature Conservancy Nine Times Preserve. A Jack-in-the-Pulpit flourishes in the Sid...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Wadakoe Mountain's secret coves

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Dennis Chastain at the amphibolite rock face he discovered in 2000. Pale yellow trillium (T. discolor) is found only in the Sav...

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Holiday hiking lessons

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People have always been drawn to the high places – the mountains and the hills. They still are today. Even in this holiest, craziest, mo...

Friday, March 27, 2009

Table Rock petroglyphs

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The view from the Petrogylph Site is a jaw-dropping gander at the tail of the Blue Ridge Escarpment; one of the carvings looks like the Cle...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway outside of Brevard, NC; the summit at Cold Mountain seems tantalizingly close from down in th...

Friday, March 13, 2009

DuPont Forest's high plateau

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Triple Falls as seen from the overlook on the Triple Falls Trail; Mountain Laurel blooms in June along the Trails at DuPont State Forest loc...

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Nine Times

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From top, locally known as Mountain Honeysuckle (actually a wild azalea) these showy blossoms can be found on the Nine Times tract in April;...

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Charles Henry Sowell: Greenville, SC; I've been covering outdoor issues in the South for the better part of 20 years and have worked as a journalist from the East Coast to Honolulu.

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