. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. centerpiece is a walk-through diorama of nightfall along the Roanoke River bottomlands, complete with springtime sounds, special lighting effects and plant and animal specimens. On a nearby wall, wetland scenes flash in time with the chirps, croaks and rustlings of wildlife. A greater siren buoys in an aquarium. It looks like an eel, but a closer look reveals that it's a salamander, short-legged and decorated with ruffled external gills and skin like black suede. Elsewhere, videotapes take viewers on-site
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. centerpiece is a walk-through diorama of nightfall along the Roanoke River bottomlands, complete with springtime sounds, special lighting effects and plant and animal specimens. On a nearby wall, wetland scenes flash in time with the chirps, croaks and rustlings of wildlife. A greater siren buoys in an aquarium. It looks like an eel, but a closer look reveals that it's a salamander, short-legged and decorated with ruffled external gills and skin like black suede. Elsewhere, videotapes take viewers on-site with ecologists who interpret the natural history of the different freshwater wetlands. A remote- control microscope swings tiny pond life — paper-thin spotted flatworms, tentacled hydras, blood-sucking leeches, predatory dragonfly nymphs — onto a screen for up-close inspec- tion. A nearby monitor explains how the diversity of wetland life includes more than can be seen with the naked eye. Through these and other dis- plays, museum visitors can tour six varieties of freshwater wetlands. River wetlands are formed as rivers change course during their lifetime, leaving behind a rolling landscape of ridges and old channels that fill during floods. These rich wetland habitats support a diversity of plants and wildlife, including black bears and wood ducks that nest in old tree cavities. Unique to these areas are the ancient cypresses that have been discovered growing in the wetlands of rivers such as the Black. Bottomland hardwood forests are a common type of river wetland found in the North Carolina landscape. Freshwater marshes are perhaps the most familiar type of freshwater wetland. They range from the simple roadside ditch with cattails to the vast edges of lakes, ponds and rivers that sprout water lilies, bulrushes, alder bushes, black willow. and blue flag iris. Beavers are wet- land engineers, damming streams and flooding low-lying areas to cre- ate much of this marshy h
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