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Nags Head Woods Preserve

• Annual Report for Town of Nags Head September 2006

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Nags Head Woods Preserve

• Deer Management
• Monitoring NC Natural Heritage Rare Plants
• Invasive Control
• KDH disabled hiking trail
• Educational Trail Signs
• Outreach

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Nags Head Woods Preserve
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Deer management

• Bow Hunting
• DMAP
• APC study (SE Cooperative Wildlife Disease
  Study UG)

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Deer Management
  Hunters Hunters Hunts Does Bucks Road Kills Reported Total
Year Registered Active Reported Killed Killed Road Kills Reported Killed
1992 15 NA NA 0 1 NA 1
1993 31 NA 212 0 3 4 7
1994 65 NA 462 4 13 10 27
1995 46 NA 220 6 10 15 34
1996 43 NA 138 11 4 17 36
1997 64 34 256 13 6 9 30
1998 44 22 232 21 11 12 44
1999 35 14 253 21 11 12 44
2000 49 17 142 5 5 7 17
2001 49 24 103 1 1 7 9
2002 48 24 198 6 4 10 25
2003 51 23 146 14 12 7 33
2004 49 17 235 11 7 7 25
2005 56 24 227 6 8 4 18
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Rare Plant Monitoring
Common Name Scientific name status N.C Rank N.C Global
Water violet Hottonia inflata SR-O S2 G4
Carolina Grasswort Lilaeopsis carolinensis T S3 G3G5
Wooly Beach Heather Hudsonia tomentosa SR-P S2 G5
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4
Mosquito Fern Azolla caroliniana   S3 G5
Fern Orchid Liparis loeselii SR-P S1 G5
Long Beach Seedbox Ludwigia brevipes SR-T S2 G2G3
Spreading Sandwort Arenaria Lanuginosa ssp lanuginosa SR-P S2 G5T5
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Common Name Scientific name status N.C Rank N.C Global Date latitude longitude of species
Water violet Hottonia inflata SR-O S2 G4 4/25/2006 N35 59.799 W75 39.939 46
Water violet Hottonia inflata SR-O S2 G4 4/26/2006 N35 59.900 W75 39.974 38
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Common Name Scientific name status N.C Rank N.C Global Date latitude longitude of species
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4 5/6/2006 N35 59.406 W75 40.126 298
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4 5/6/2006 N35 59.863 W75 39.764 16
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4 5/6/2006 N35 59.856 W75 39.760 45
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4 5/6/2006 N35 59.829 W75 40.033 66
Southern Twayblade Listera australis W1 S3 G4 5/6/2006 N35 59.458 W75 40.072 12
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Invasive Work

• Boys Scout Project (Japanese Grass)
• Invasive Plant Control (Oriental Bittersweet)

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Invasive Work

• Gypsy Moth to date none found in traps
• Nutria management plan partnering with Jockeys
  Ridge State Park

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Nags Head Woods Preserve KDH Disabled Hiking Trail

• Partnering Project
• Town of Kill Devil Hills
• Wildlife Recourse Commission
• NC Handicapped Sportsman Inc.
• The Nature Conservancy
• Vision To restore a 5 acre parcel from a
  retired sanitation facility back to a maritime
  forest/marsh ecosystem and create a eco-friendly
  hiking trail/hunting area for disabled persons.

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Trail Map layer over aerial picture
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Educational Trail Signs
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Educational Trail Signs
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Educational Trail Signs
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Outreach Efforts

• Partner with Jockey Ridge to build shallow water
  oyster reefs
• Field trips for NC Aquarium and Wings Over Water
  (USFW)

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Dare County Fire Wise Committee

• Partnership effort
• USFWS
• NCFS
• Dare County Fire Marshall
• NC Cooperative Extension
• Park Service
• TNC
• The objective of Fire Wise is to educate the
  Towns and community of Dare County about the
  program and how they can protect their property
  in Urban interface areas.

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Town Trail
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Yellow fringed Orchid
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Thank You
Crane-fly Orchid