Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State’s Natural Communities

Product Description

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state’s natural landscapes,
Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina’s interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

Wild North Carolina introduces the full range of the state’s diverse natural communities, each brought to life with compelling accounts of their significance and meaning, arresting photographs featuring broad vistas and close-ups, and details on where to go to experience them first hand. Blevins and Schafale provide nature enthusiasts of all levels with the insights they need to value the state’s natural diversity, highlighting the reasons plants and animals are found where they are, as well as the challenges of conserving these special places.

Review

“”Wild North Carolina” is a beautifully illustrated book that seeks to teach us how to read North Carolina’s varied landscapes, helps us understand the many marvelous natural processes that maintain these landscapes, and provides a stirring call for the conservation of threatened communities.”–Lawrence Earley, author and former editor of “Wildlife in North Carolina”

Review

Wild North Carolina is a beautifully illustrated book that seeks to teach us how to read North Carolina’s varied landscapes, helps us understand the many marvelous natural processes that maintain these landscapes, and provides a stirring call for the conservation of threatened communities.–Lawrence Earley, author of
Looking for Longleaf

From the Inside Flap

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state’s natural landscapes, this book provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina’s interconnected webs of plant and animal life. Blevins and Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

From the Back Cover

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state’s natural landscapes, this book provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina’s interconnected webs of plant and animal life. Blevins and Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.

About the Author

David Blevins is a nature photographer and forest ecologist. His work is inspired by an appreciation of the natural patterns found in what at first seems to be a chaotic world.

Michael P. Schafale has worked as a community ecologist for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program for twenty-seven years, focusing on the classification, tracking, conservation, and stewardship of natural communities.