PFI tours the Brevard fault

The Pisgah Forest Institute provided workshops and mountain adventures to 2 dozen elementary educators in June 2008.

Below is Caeser's Head in the South Carolina park of that name.

The view from Caeser's Head shows the Piedmont vista from the scarf of the Blue Ridge.

Tablerock Mountain

A leap from Hooker Falls in Dupont State Park.

High Falls

Triple Falls in low water

The Little River in quiet mode.

Tree on a fault block.

Folded gneiss near top of wall. Detail below.

Vultures above trout fishery on Davidson River.

Northern water snake.

Hemlock infested with wooly alegid (white spots).

Rattlesnake plantain.

Elephant ear hydrangea.

"Straightened" creek on Brevard campus. Rehabilitated creek images below.

One of the famous white squirrels of Brevard.
White Squirrel Photo Album

Brevard Music Center

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Garner to Gresham's - Person Street tour

If you start at Highway 50 and Timber Drive in Garner, you can drive a thoroughfare from here through downtown Raleigh out to Gresham's lake at Capital and 540. Timber to Hammond to Person to Wake Forest to Atlantic to Old Wake Forest - this long stretch is featured at Raleigh Nature in a "Straight Streets" post.

Above is the dead end of Timber, just across 50. The south end of Garner is just full of loblollies!

Below is Wildcat Creek as it crosses Hammond.

Micostegia off Hammond

greenway at cypress bog from Hammond

No Hand King at person and MLK Blvd.

Guv's Mansion and garden

Person Street features Marsh Woodwinds and the Mordecai House.

Person used to connect to Wake Forest Rd. here.

Dangerous Atlantic Ave bridge

Greenway under Atlantic

At the north end, this stretch is just short of Gresham's lake, where Paul now stands.

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Continental Divide down to the Piedmont

The Continental Divide on 40

Blasting tubes for the crest of the Continental Divide

South Mountains monadnock

South Mountains development

South Mountain State Park

Mid Crabtree Owl and Snapper eggs

Barn owl off deck of Middle Crabtree's greenway

Turtles basking on this same stretch

This is the rock that turns Crabtree Creek at Capital Boulevard

The owl is in this scene somewhere. Below is a female snapping turtle laying eggs.

The family of one of my students had a female snapper crawl up into a sandy area near their backyard creek and lay some eggs.

Wakefield Middle School Ecology Club

The Raleigh Naturalist get-up shown at Wakefield MS.

The large map is being color-coded to delineate the watersheds.

The school is on a lovely site near the Falls Lake dam. Below are some nature images from their campus.

These blackberries will be tasting good by mid-summer!

This nifty rockfall includes the most interesting "man-made conglomerate" I've seen - really pretty high-iron rock encased in cement.

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