NC Sparks
Mountains to sea in four hundred miles.
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A plant that eats, inside ninety miles of one town
Flytraps, red wolves, and the fireflies that keep time.
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A plant that eats, and it only lives here
WHAT LIVES HERE
The Venus flytrap is native to a radius of about ninety miles around Wilmington and nowhere else on earth. Poaching it is a felony in North Carolina.
For two weeks the fireflies flash together
WHAT LIVES HERE
Photinus carolinus synchronises across a hillside for a short window each summer, and the parks now ballot access because of it.
The red wolf ran out of room
WHAT LIVES HERE
The recovery programme at Alligator River is the most closely watched in the country, and the population count is a public and contested number.
MOUNTAINS
THE GORGES
THE COAST
RIVERS
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