Chapter 4 Habitats
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats
• Make efforts to retain old growth floodplain forest for Chimney Swifts, bats, and herpetofauna.
• Work to develop eight patches of forested wetlands at least 10,000 acres in size throughout the South Atlantic Coastal Plain, as called for in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan (Hunter et al. 2000b) .
• Initiate partnerships with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to begin cane restoration projects and research.
• Further expand the Forest Landbird Legacy Program (a cooperative effort between the NCWRC, the US Fish and Wildlife Service [USFWS], and the Natural Resources Conservation Service) to influence habitat for birds and other wildlife in mature floodplain forest through canopy gap management and other options.
• Concentrate conservation efforts on the Pee Dee and Dan River basins, as they contain some of the larger tracts of intact floodplain forest left in the Piedmont and offer some of the best opportunities for large-scale habitat conservation. Pee Dee River basin Dan River basin
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