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Year of the Beetle

A new year means a new opportunity to learn about the natural world around us. For more than a decade, North Carolina State Parks has dedicated an annual campaign to some fascinating group of critters, plants or natural process and given it “Year of …” status. Welcome to 2021, Year of the Beetle.

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Year of Fire

Given normal conditions, this installment of the “Year of Fire” series would have included an update on numbers of acres burned at Lake James State Park during the spring. These have been anything but normal conditions and the prescribed fire program here has been halted for the time being.

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Nature NotesMolly Sandfoss