Native Plants

Native Plants

Land

Western North Carolina is covered with plants indigenous to the Appalachian Mountains. Here is a short list of the plants found throughout the Linville Falls area. Photographs courtesy of Mark Haskett, Western Carolina University Photographic Services.  This...
Old Growth Forests

Old Growth Forests

Land

Old-Growth forests conjures up visions of the great forests that once covered most of eastern north America, and of towering trees undisturbed by logging and human settlement. They provide a vital link to our environmental past and are the preferred and sometime only habitat of a number of species.