Metabasalts and Related Rocks of the Blue Ridge Province: Traces of Proterozoic Rifting in Eastern North America: Shenandoah National Park to Bull Run Mountains, Virginia, July 14, 1989

Hundreds of years of botanical exploration in heavily populated and highly accessible eastern North America have not exhausted taxonomic prospects in the region. Here, I describe a new species of Asarum (Aristolochiaceae), Asarum rosei B.T.Sinn, from North Carolina, USA. This species is characterized and contrasted with species in Asarum subgenus Heterotropa section Hexastylis, and a revised artificial taxonomic key to the similar species in the section is provided.

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Groundwater residence times in Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, USA: a multi-tracer approach

Chemical Geology ◽

10.1016/s0009-2541(01)00317-5 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 179 (1-4) ◽

pp. 93-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 122

Author(s):

L.N. Plummer ◽

E. Busenberg ◽

J.K. Böhlke ◽

D.L. Nelms ◽

R.L. Michel ◽

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Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Residence Times ◽

Blue Ridge ◽

Shenandoah National Park ◽

Blue Ridge Mountains

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Reflections on Research: Race and the Virginia Blue Ridge

Historical Archaeology ◽

10.1007/s41636-021-00295-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Audrey Horning

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Public Support ◽

Blue Ridge ◽

Documentary Evidence ◽

Family Farms ◽

Race And Racism ◽

White Families ◽

Shenandoah National Park ◽

Park Service

AbstractIn the 1930s, Shenandoah National Park was established in the Virginia Blue Ridge through the displacement of nearly 500 white families. In recent decades, my scholarship and that of others focused upon the manner in which hackneyed stereotypes about backward mountaineers were mobilized to garner public support for the condemnation of family farms and, in some cases, the institutionalization, sterilization, and incarceration of some of the most impoverished. But, in focusing solely upon the 20th century and the impacts on the white displaced, this research has perpetrated structural violence by obscuring the role of race and racism in the wider Blue Ridge. Archaeological and documentary evidence from the 1990s National Park Service–funded “Survey of Rural Mountain Settlement” is reexamined and reconsidered to begin the process of redressing the silencing of African American histories in the Blue Ridge and surrounding valley and piedmont regions.

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A review ofRinodina(Physciaceae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park highlights the growing significance of this “island of biodiversity” in eastern North America

The Bryologist ◽

10.1639/0007-2745-117.3.259 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 117 (3) ◽

pp. 259-281 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

James C. Lendemer ◽

Erin A. Tripp ◽

John Sheard

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

National Park ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Great Smoky Mountains ◽

Smoky Mountains

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Population trends and interactions among terns and gulls in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z93-214 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 71 (8) ◽

pp. 1516-1520 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Lesley-Anne Howes ◽

William A. Montevecchi

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

National Park ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Population Trends ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Sterna Hirundo ◽

Local Production ◽

Common Terns

Although populations of Common Terns and Arctic Terns (Sterna hirundo, S. paradisaea) have been decreasing and gull (Larus spp.) populations have been increasing in eastern North America for more than 50 years, little is known about the population trends of these species in Newfoundland. Here we present data, spanning two decades, on the population trends and interactions of terns and gulls on five islands in Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland. Tern populations in this region are increasing despite interactions with gulls and low productivity. Immigration from disturbed colonies elsewhere is suggested as a possible source of the increase. Gull populations have also increased substantially since the early 1970s and closely follow local production of fisheries offal, as indicated by landing trends in the area. Implications for gull management strategies are discussed.

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