Stately Forests in the Sandhills of North Carolina

Posted by Christina Bullock on July 14, 2009 under Aberdeen, Nature Travel, North Carolina, Southern Pines, State Parks, Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve | Comments are off for this article

General Info: Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve includes some of the last stands of the original longleaf pine forests that once covered North Carolina with tall trees. By 1900, however, most of the original growth had been harvested for use by the naval stores and logging/lumber industries. In addition to collecting rosin, turpentine, tar and [...]