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Geographic areas of Raleigh
Central Raleigh – Downtown, Glenwood,Boylan Heights, Mordecai & Oakwood
East Raleigh– Longview, Buckeye Trail & Poole Road
North Raleigh – Shelley Lake, Lake Lynn & Big Branch creek
Northeast Raleigh – Raleigh Swamp, Atlantic Ave, & Marsh Creek
South Raleigh – Walnut Creek, Dix Hill and the Coastal Plain
Southeast Raleigh – More Walnut Creek, Rock Quarry Road & Garner
Southwest Raleigh – Lake Johnson, Lake Raleigh and Swift Creek
West Raleigh – Art Museum, Jaycee & the old Beltline arc
Greenways & Parks – open space initiatives
Exotica – outposts and travel
Gems & Surprises – the best and coolest stuff
Green resources – ways to help
Nature Lore – science & taxonomy
Pecans & Mistletoe – natural resources in the urban setting
Rural Raleigh – country sights & memories
Straight Streets – street-themed essays
Pecans & Mistletoe: Nature Projects Blog
Research Resources
Natural History of Raleigh research links
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Publisher’s Statement
The Natural History of Raleigh is a blog becoming a book. After publishing Snapper in 2001 I realized that the NEXT culminating, many-disciplines-in-one project (for Snapper was one) in my future was work about the city greenways I was walking and falling in love with at the time. I am not a meeting person, to work on initiatives, nor a scientist, to work rigorously and logically, but a literary kind of naturalist( and a metacognitionist of a teacher). This blog presents notes toward essays about the lore about, and the real opportunities to experience, nature in the city limits of Raleigh. I was born here in 1953, remember images of Hurricane Hazel’s aftermath (I was 18 months old) and grew up in East Raleigh, with much, much time spent in old downtown. Even then the parks, the “waste places”, the empty lots and railroad yards seemed to hold more promise, or at least interest, for me than the big office buildings with the nine to five people who bought hot dogs at my daddy’s luncheonette on W. Morgan Street. Now red-tailed hawks scour for pigeons, coyotes have appeared in Wake County, and the greenway ushers me past all my childhood trails.
Here is the record of my travels. 
Update: The Natural History of Raleigh is published!
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