Cacapon Mountain is a Ridge-and-valley Appalachians mountain in Morgan and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia
It is home to swamps, prairies and mountains due to the foothills of the Appalachians which end in the county, the Coosa River basin, and its proximity to the Black Belt Prairie.
His second book, Another Country, is perhaps his most complex, interweaving historical accounts of the southern Appalachians, reflections on the Cherokee language and its relationship to the landscape, and an account of efforts to reintroduce the endangered red wolf into Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
It is a common grass on grassy balds in the southern Appalachians, where it occurs with redtop (Agrostis alba), timothy (Phleum pratense), Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa), Kentucky bluegrass (P. pratensis), red fescue (Festuca rubra), five-fingers (Potentilla canadensis), and sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella).
Alexander undertook several botanical expeditions in his lifetime, including to Pecos, Texas with J.K. Small and the southern Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains with Thomas H. Everett.
Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf (1883–1974) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and did research in the Appalachians during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Wilderness Road, a road that traverses the Appalachians through the Cumberland Gap
Jean Dubois (bishop) (18th century), French Catholic missionary in Virginia and Appalachians, third bishop of New York
During this period he produced a series of classic papers centered around the history of the Appalachians in Newfoundland as well as the Scottish and Irish Caledonides.
These were published in the seminal work, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp and Olive Campbell (1917, New York).
Trees up to 30 m (100 ft) tall have been found growing in the southern Appalachians, with the largest found on the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Another major influence in Schneider’s life has been a small town called Helvetia in the West Virginia Appalachians, that had been settled by Swiss immigrants in the 1860s.
Papilio appalachiensis or Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail, endemic to the Appalachians
It was Koester's exposure to eastern mountain coal railroading in the Appalachians that led him to develop the concept of the Allegheny Midland.