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July 2020

Barn swallows like to perch on wires.

Song of the South

Large Blue Ridge forests may be protecting native songbirds.
Stonewall Resort, West Virginia.

MOUNTAIN BLUE: The Top 26 Water-Related Businesses in the Blue Ridge

The votes are in, now it's time to celebrate the Best Water-Related Businesses in the Blue Ridge, as selected by our readers.
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BRC Plus – The Heart of the Mountains: A Mountain Magazine, Trying Harder

The challenges facing small publications such as ours pale in the context of challenges to much larger realms of life. But we are working hard to step up to ours with new offerings.
West Virginia’s section of the New River hosts Bridge Day in the fall.

A River Runs Through it

No matter where we look in the Blue Ridge region, a river runs through it—at least 50 of them. We profile 13 mountain favorites.
The Tuckasegee River of North Carolina has its headwaters on 10,000 acres of public lands.

Rivers Run Through it: The Rest of the Story

Space considerations precluded the inclusion of some aspects of Angela Minor’s piece on rivers in the July/August 2020 issue. Here, for each river in the piece, is information on species and history.
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