Exploring North Carolina's Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking TrailsNorth Carolina boasts a natural environment of exceptional richness and diversity. From the mountains to the coast, the state is home to an extraordinary variety of publicly accessible sites that showcase aspects of its ecology, geology, biology, and natural history. This book leads the reader on thirty eight field trips to some of the most interesting and instructive of these natural landscapes. Written by leading naturalists from across the state,