Tag: Ochlawaha Bog

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  Female wood duck at Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge. Photo © Quincey Banks.

  Birding at Ochlawaha bog

  March 7, 2012 | 2 minute read

  Transcript Greetings and welcome to the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature. The dry, late-winter brush covering the field was several feet high as we walked across, side-by-side, looking for birds. Then, with startling suddenness, a bird shot out of the brush, flying for several yards before settling back down to earth. It was a woodcock, a gamebird, and for the knowing observer, her flush gave away the existence of her nest, hidden on the ground and holding a pair of eggs.  Learn more...

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  Bunched arrowhead. Photo by Gary Peeples, USFWS.

  Former farmland restored to rare habitat

  March 7, 2011 | 2 minute read

  Transcript Greetings and welcome to the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature. At first glance it appears to be merely a patch of woods and farm field beside an established Flat Rock neighborhood. However, to biologists it’s Ochlawaha bog, a degraded remnant of one of the rarest natural communities in North America, and it’s in the beginning stages of a resurgence. Biologists estimate around 500 acres of Southern Appalachian bogs remain, and their importance is heightened by the fact they’re often home to greatly imperiled species.  Learn more...

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  The proposed expansion would allow a population of the endangered bunched arrowhead to be conserved as part of Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Gary Peeples, USFWS.

  Ochlawaha bog - conserving one of our rarest habitats

  April 13, 2010 | 2 minute read

  Transcript Greetings and welcome to the Southern Appalachian Creature Feature We all know endangered species are rare. But there’s rare and then there’s rare. Bunched arrowhead is an endangered plant found only in two counties. In the entire world. Henderson County, North Carolina, and Greenville County, South Carolina. It lives in Southern Appalachian bogs one of the rarest natural communities on the planet, with only about 500 acres remaining in North Carolina.  Learn more...