Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain, from southern New Jersey to northern Florida, you can find sandy-rimmed depressions known as Carolina Bays. The exact number of Carolina Bays, however, has always ...

These rivers carried sediments from the ever-shrinking mountains to be deposited in what would become part of the Atlantic coastal plain. Virginians call this area the Tidewater region because of ...

Autumn’s best foliage extends to the Mid-Atlantic piedmont and coastal plain, and westward into Tennessee and Kentucky as well as the southern Plains. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

And it’s not just a local issue: Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida. Huge swaths of contiguous forest are dying.

Over two days, regional editors to the USNVC and ecologists met to discuss proposed revisions to Appalachian Forests and Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Forests. A small group (10 people) of ecologists ...