A popular tourist area, North Carolina's coastal region is the
destination of roughly 25 percent of all North Carolina visitors
each year, or approximately 12.1 million people. Composed of
twenty-eight of the eastern-most counties of North Carolina, the
Coastal Plain is the largest and most diverse of the state's three
biogeographical regions. Beginning with an overview of early
naturalists who marveled at the region's natural treasures, Eric G.
Bolen and James F. Parnell's natural history of the Coastal Plain
offers a nature-focused walk through the distinctive geological
features and plant and animal communities of the area that extends
from the Fall Line (delineated approximately by I-95) to the shores
of the Atlantic Ocean. This richly illustrated volume presents a
journey that begins with the Outer Banks and their beaches, dunes,
wild horses, and maritime forests, then moves on to describe the
form and functions of the region's extensive salt marshes. The text
continues with visits to the mysterious Carolina bays, Lake
Waccamaw, dark cypress swamps, the Great Dismal Swamp, and
blackwater streams. Along the way, readers will discover the
habitat-and concern-for the last remaining wild population of red
wolves and the recently established nesting colonies of wood stork.
Rivers and sounds, highlighted by seagrasses, bottomland forests,
and eel migrations, come next, followed by a tour of uplands, where
bogs of carnivorous plants dot wet savannahs; also presented are
the Carolina Sandhills with their stately forests of longleaf pine,
colorful tree frogs, burrowing snakes, and unique fishes. To
conclude, an afterword discusses the reasons for saving endangered
species. Infoboxes scattered throughout the text offer stand-alone
explorations of historical and cultural topics associated with
North Carolina's Coastal Plain. Subjects such as whaling, waterfowl
decoys, the chanteys of menhaden fisherman, fire ecology, and the
extinction of Carolina parakeets illustrate the breadth of
coverage. For reference, an appendix cites the scientific names of
species mentioned in the text, and a list of readings and
references appends each chapter.
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