Dismal Swamp State Park wildlife and wetlands ncwetlands
Channel: NC Wetlands
Date: 2020-02-26

Dismal Swamp State Park (North Carolina) Park Superintendent Adam Carver describes the wildlife and wetlands visitors can see at the 14,000 acre state park, which is in the northeast corner of North Carolina near the Virginia border. He also describes the wildfire that burned 200 acres in the park in 2011 when the swamp was unusually dry. This was part of a 6500 acre fire that burned for several months in this state park and in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia and North Carolina. Efforts are being made to hold the water back in the swamps through water control structures, to restore native trees and also reduce the risk of severe fires such as these. 

Video produced in 2020 by ncwetlands.org, an outreach project of the NC Division of Water Resources.