Falls Lake State Recreation Area » Ecology
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Serious plant pests can be introduced into our parks by campers who bring in firewood. To prevent this, many of our parks sell firewood. For campers who choose to bring in their own firewood, please use wood harvested from a source local to the park. Campers should
not bring firewood from outside of North Carolina.
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Sandling Beach will close for the season on October 15 and will re-open April 1, 2010.
Shinleaf and Hollypoint will close for the winter on November 1 and will re-open on March 15, 2010.
Rolling View Loops B and C are closed for the winter and will re-open on 3/15/2010
BW Wells Group sites 6 - 11 will close for the winter on 11/15/09 and re-open on 3/15/2010. Sites 12, 13 and 14 will be closed into 2010 for site restoration.
Updated: 2009-11-13 04:11:23
A wide variety of plants and animals can be found throughout Falls Lake. Colorful wildflowers including
tick-seed sunflowers, butterfly weeds and asters can be found nestled next to a number of oak species and
loblolly pines. White-tailed deer, rabbit, red fox and raccoon are some of the most common forms
of wildlife. Bluebirds, goldfinches and wrens sing in the trees, as wood ducks and mallards gently paddle
in the nearby water. Soaring in the sky overhead are birds of prey including the red-tailed hawk, osprey
and bald eagle. The calls of the great-horned, barred and screech owls fill the night air.