4.1 Introduction
T ABLE 4.2 North Carolina river basins and ecoregion associations (click on link for a river basin map) River Basin Mountains Piedmont Sandhills
Coastal Plain
Broad
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Catawba Cape Fear Chowan
X
X X
French Broad
X X X
Hiwassee
Little Tennessee
Lumber
X
X X
Neuse
X
New
X
Pasquotank Roanoke Savannah Tar–Pamlico
X X
X X
X
X
X
Watauga
X
White Oak
X
Yadkin–Pee Dee
X
X
X
Appendix H associates the terrestrial Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) intro- duced in Chapter 3 and the terrestrial habitats and ecoregions they use in North Carolina. Te information in this Section updates material found in Chapter 5 of the original Plan (NCWRC 2005) . Section 4.4 provides additional information about conservation concerns for coastal and marine environments managed by the NC Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, including the estu- arine aquatic communities described in Section 4.2. Conservation measures developed by these agencies as well as by the Albemarle–Pamlico National Estuary Partnership (APNEP) are included, and directions to additional information about these measures are provided in this section. Tis information updates material found in Chapter 5C of the original Plan (NCWRC 2005) . 4.1.2 Natural Community Priorities Te North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission’s (NCWRC) land acquisition objec- tives include consideration for protecting important aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Other objectives include expanding and connecting game lands and land conservation
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