Conserving Carolina: Protecting LandsFeatured
For Nature and People. Forever.
Presented by Pam Torlina,
Community Engagement Director, Conserving Carolina
Connecting people who love the natural world.
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For Nature and People. Forever.
Presented by Pam Torlina,
Community Engagement Director, Conserving Carolina
What a great day to see the awakening of spring ephemerals! The threat of rain did not encourage 6 naturalists – the weather was cool with only an occasional mist.
There were masses of Sweet Betsy Trillium in their usual maroon dress, but there were some exceptions of tan, green and yellow. We were greeted by masses of Green and Gold plants with their yellow flowers. Foam Flowers were in various stages of developing and Mayapples carpeted the forest floor as we neared the falls. Canada and Sweet White Violets were present as was Rue Anemone. We saw a couple of Bloodroots with most of them having already gone to seed. Yellowroot with its tiny maroon flowers was in abundance in the early portion of the walk. There was also some Blue Cohosh in bloom, the Black Cohosh we found will be flowering later. We missed the flowering of Liverwort, nuts.
Read morePresented by Bill Jacobs, author of Whence These Special Place: The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands and Panthertown Valley
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Ever wonder why Looking Glass Rock and nearby Devil’s Courthouse have such radically different profiles, or why Looking Glass Falls is rugged and precipitous but a few miles upstream Sliding Rock is smooth and slidable? This program will answer these and many similar questions by exploring the processes, spread over more than 500 million years, that have created the western North Carolina mountains. Bill Jacobs will discuss the Blue Ridge mountains and the geology that has shaped specific mountains and waterfalls.
Bill Jacobs is the author of Whence These Special Places? The Geology of Cashiers, Highlands & Panthertown Valley. When he retired from his Atlanta-based legal career in 2011, he began pursuing his curiosity about the geologic origins of the mountains. After years of in-person and on-line courses, wide-ranging self-study, and numerous back-country explorations, he began to give presentations to interested groups as well as writing Whence these Special Places.
