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Category: Natural resource management

illustration: timeline overview of environmental history
November 4, 2020 Natural resource management

An overview of Southern Appalachian environmental history since the turn of this century

Author and scholar Donald Edward Davis offers a 20 year timeline overview of Southern Appalachian environmental history.

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1927 arthur woody deer feed pens
September 9, 2019 Forestry / Georgia / Natural resource management

He brought the deer back to North Georgia

It’s all too easy to forget that in the early part of the 20th century, there simply were no deer to be had in the northern part of Georgia.

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Two boaters on a lake in this 1897 painting of The Glades
March 8, 2019 Maryland / Natural resource management

The oldest mountain peatland in the Appalachians

Those broad, enclosed valleys whose meandering streams are often bordered by rather marshy ground are known in Garrett County as Glades.

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Soil Erosion Control District Spartanburg/Greenville 1933
February 4, 2019 Natural resource management / South Carolina

Once fertile fields laid waste

Southern Appalachian farms suffered from poor soil conditions and erosion as a result of practices that maximized the short-term potential.

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charles hibble in 1969
October 24, 2017 Caves and spelunking / Kentucky / Natural resource management

Along the wooded slopes and ridges

Claude W. Hibbard was the first naturalist at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park (June 1, 1934 to August 22, 1935).

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