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Panthertown Valley Bog

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===== Rare and Endangered Species =====
===== Rare and Endangered Species =====
Panthertown Valley Bog also provides habitat and conditions for rare species such as the [[Baltimore checkerspot|Baltimore Checkerspot]]. Mountain sweet pitcher (Sarracenia jonesii) plant is another important species as it is federally endangered{{Cite web |title=Southern Appalachian Mountain Bogs |url=https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/mountain-bogs/ |access-date=2026-04-14 |website=The Nature Conservancy |language=en-US}}. Bog turtles are another important species that have been heavily impacted by land fragmentation. Panthertown Valley Bog provides habitat to the bog turtle and is currently being managed to encourage the bog turtle back into the wetland. Other rare species include swamp pink, marsh bellflower (''Campanula aparinoides'') and narrowleaf peatmoss (''Sphagnum angustifolium''){{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Elizabeth Marie |title=Holocene Environmental History of Panthertown Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina |url=file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Holocene_environmental_history.pdf |archive-url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Holocene-environmental-history-of-Panthertown-in-of-Martin/b077fe15fd2d0ac2b6f4ef788c05ec6b51d0e0ef#citing-papers |publisher=Westen Carolina University |page=11|access-date=4/20/26|archive-date=2014}}.
Panthertown Valley Bog also provides habitat and conditions for rare species such as the [[Baltimore checkerspot|Baltimore Checkerspot]]. Mountain sweet pitcher ''(Sarracenia jonesii'') plant is another important species as it is federally endangered{{Cite web |title=Southern Appalachian Mountain Bogs |url=https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/mountain-bogs/ |access-date=2026-04-14 |website=The Nature Conservancy |language=en-US}}. Bog turtles are another important species that have been heavily impacted by land fragmentation. Panthertown Valley Bog provides habitat to the bog turtle and is currently being managed to encourage the bog turtle back into the wetland. Other rare species include swamp pink, marsh bellflower (''Campanula aparinoides'') and narrowleaf peatmoss (''Sphagnum angustifolium''){{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Elizabeth Marie |title=Holocene Environmental History of Panthertown Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina |url=file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Holocene_environmental_history.pdf |archive-url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Holocene-environmental-history-of-Panthertown-in-of-Martin/b077fe15fd2d0ac2b6f4ef788c05ec6b51d0e0ef#citing-papers |publisher=Westen Carolina University |page=11|access-date=4/20/26|archive-date=2014}}.


== History ==
== History ==
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