The Green Swamp

[Michael]

Do the trenches completely encircle that spot? Shipping industry... Growing Masts?

 

[Ozzy]

Do the trenches completely encircle that spot?

Yes

Growing Masts?

no, but the closest guess so far.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

I'm stumped.

 

[Ncmtns]

wow, those are great pics. Thanks for sharing them

 

[Michael]

So...lumber for building ships, or turpentine/rosin to help with building ships?

 

[Ozzy]

.lumber for building ships

No.

turpentine/rosin to help with building ships?

100% correct.

They would use slave labor to gather the sap from the trees, and it would drain through the trench and collect at one end..

This area was the world leader at producing turpentine. Heres a little article about it.

http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/103/entry

 

[Capensis]

Nice pics!

 

[Ozzy]

4/16/08

 

[Ozzy]

4/25/08

The rest of the pics are not really great, but I did the best I could. It's of a very rare Red-cockaded woodpecker. The sun was in the wrong angle and I had to zoom my camera all the way out.

Well that's all the pics that I currently have taken. I have only mapped about half of the preserve so I have a long way to go. I'll be adding more pics as I take them.

 

[bianchi914]

Very nice thank you for sharing the great pics with us!

 

[Alexis]

Were those flowers killed by frost?

 

[Ozzy]

Yes they were. this is the second year in a row that has happened.

 

[PlantAKiss]

Darn... I was going to say it was a fairy ring.

LOVE the photos!!! The pings are beautiful. Everything is beautiful. *sigh* I wanna go and stay a week in the weeds.

 

[Ozzy]

5/08/08

 

[Ozzy]

 

[rsivertsen]

Nice! Nothing like a good healthy routine fire to keep things clean! CPs and orchids come back even better than previous years. When these fires are prevented for up to a decade or so, then the fires become holocausts incinerating almost everything. These late summer flash fires on a regular basis clears up the old debris, thick layers of dead grass leaves and releases the minerals, and kills off the grubs and parasites that dwell in the surface of that litter. - Rich

 

[CP30]

Awesome! Thanks for the pics Oz. Nothing like seeing these beauts in their natural habitats.

 

[Capensis]

Very nice!