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Our first Zoom program of the year!

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EVENT: Friends of the Western North Carolina Nature Center

DATE:  February 9, 2021

SUBJECT: Friends of the Western North Carolina Nature Center -Discover who we are, What we are proud to do, and Meet several of the animals who help us teach!  We learned about how the Western North Carolina Nature Center connects people with the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Region by inspiring appreciation, nurturing understanding, and advancing conservation of the region’s rich biodiversity.

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Nature Notes

Nature Notes: Mountains and Fungi

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October 2020

By: Linda Martinson

It is mid-October, and there is still a pandemic and a contentious election coming up. When I need to get a grip, I contemplate the mountains which gives me a soothing, this-too-shall-pass feeling. Here in Western North Carolina, we live in one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world: the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are 1.2 billion plus years old, but they are not very high because although they have been uplifted repeatedly, they also have been persistently eroding for millions of years.

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