The pocosin marshlands of the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula drain into the Alligator River, an important link in the intracoastal waterway.
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This is a common plant in several types of habitat, including savanna, bog, forest, pocosin, and swamp.
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Under this layer, the pocosin soil is high in organic material, which acts as a charcoal-like substance that helps fires start.
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"' Pocosin "'is a term for a type of palustrine wetland with deep, acidic, sandy, peat soils.
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Upstream along Gales Creek and further into the Pocosin, is another camp for youth operated by the Eckerd Youth Alternatives program, Camp E-Ma-Henwu.
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Upstream along Gales Creek and further into the Pocosin, is a camp for youth operated by the Eckerd Youth Alternatives program, Camp E-Ma-Henwu.
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Environmentalists, for example, accuse the administration of trying to pressure or ignore its scientists, from those of the Pocosin biologists in North Carolina to Environmental Protection Agency scientists working on global warming.
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This led to a great deal of deforestation on the peninsula in the 1980s, to the extent that only one third of the peninsula's pocosin marshlands continue to exist in their unaltered form.
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Known as a pocosin-literally a " swamp on the hill "-the expansive wetlands south of Mayo move water toward the waterways, and provide refuge to alligators, wood storks and bears in the process.
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A loose definition of " pocosin " can include all shrub and forest bogs, as well as stands of Atlantic White Cedar ( " Chamaecyparis thyoides " ) and loblolly pine on the Atlantic coastal plain.
