Late summer brought a new chapter to the Lake James State Park burning program; the first “growing season” prescribed fire ever conducted at the park.
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There’s no doubt, fall is a great time to view wildlife at Lake James State Park and the surrounding countryside.
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Acknowledging that the Summer of 2020 will be unlike any other is the first step in making the most of the COVID-19 version of Lake James State Park.
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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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Each year when the busy summer season ends, park staff take the opportunity to catch up on maintenance projects, training, and program development. Last winter we were fortunate to have a volunteer in the Catawba River Office to digitally record our park’s scrapbook collection.
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Without the marvel of modern air conditioning or the uniquely human ability to sweat, the animals of the forest must adjust their periods of activity to avoid the heat of summer.
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Year-round visitors to the park are no doubt accustomed by now to the big yellow earth movers and red clay tire tracks going up and down Lake James State Park Road at the Paddy’s Creek Area.
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If the summer of 2019 was your last visit to Lake James State Park, welcome back and things have changed.
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As the weather starts to turn towards summer, people from near and far are looking forward to spending time at the lake.
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The year 2019 brought a 20-percent increase in visitation to Lake James State Park.
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Get ready for the most extreme endurance race this side of Burke County:
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While the Americans have become quite accustomed to the annual explosion of extreme wildfires in the West during late summer and into the fall, it is a different story here in the Southeast.
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As memories of this warm, wet Winter fade into the promise of Spring, it’s time to embrace the changing seasons, even at this accelerated pace.
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Mark your calendars for these annual events.
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Christmas came a week early for Lake James State Park and its many supporters. On Dec. 18, 2019 the long-awaited groundbreaking ceremony took place for the park’s future visitors center.
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