lia.ae of area: Big Cypress Bay (Bi^ Cypress Pond) 



County: Brunswick 



Location description: To reach Bifj Cypress Bay, travel south ^.3 ni. on 



Co. 5d, 1112 from its intersection with highway KG 211 east of Supply, to 

 southeast headin- jeep trail (last dirt road to the left before reaching 

 curve to the right in Cc. 2d. 1112); proceed east-southeast along jeep 

 trail approximately 1.8 rai. Bay (Big Cypress Bay) containing pond net- 

 work (see acconpanying nap) vihich constitutes Big Cypress Pond is north- 

 east of jeep trail. 



Elevation: 12.2 to l5.Sin (^0 to 55 ft.) above sea level. 



Province: Coastal Plain 



Physiographic region: Atlantic Plain 

 Section: Sea Islands Dowawarp 



Topographic quad aap reference: Lockvoods Folly 



Size: ca. 150 acres. 



Ownership information: Weyerhauser Company 



Hwy 7^ 

 Wilmington, II. C. 28^01, 



2eport prepared by: Tinothy D. Nifong 



Box 29 8 Coker Hall 

 Dept, of Botany, UITC 

 ChaiDel Hill, K.C. 2751^. 



Other persons knowledgeable about site: Joseph Newnan 



Cape Fear Drive 

 Southport, I'.C. 



Current use and nrotection status: 



1:3l680 (map attached). 



pS^fSl. 



The ponds within Birt Cypress Bay are subject both to soce hunt-in;- (j-ri- 

 narily duck) and sone fishing activities in season. Such activities consti- 

 tute little apparent threat to nesting within the ponds of the bay b;;- several 

 bird species, or to the vegetational conmunities occurring within the bay. 



The entire upland area surrounding the bay was cleared and replanted 

 in pines ( Pinus sp.) in the late 1960's. Because the several ponds vl-iich 

 constitute Big Cypress Pond lie within an apparent irregular Carolina bay 

 (Big Cypress Bay), the high water table and subsequent -wet surface soil con- 

 ditions inpose a severe equipment li:7iitation upon clearing and/or planting 

 operations in the iinmediate area of the bay, and consequently, a buffer zone 

 of varying v;idth — depending upon how close to the edge of Big Cypress Bay 

 that a particular pond lies — and vegetated by a pocosin conmunity tyoe ( Pinus 

 serotina/ nixed evergreen and deciduous shrubs//Snilsx laurifolia ) has been 

 left surrounding all of the pond areas proper, and covering nost of the 

 entire bay area. 



Vegetation and plant comnunities: 



Because of the relative inaccessibility to the network of ponds which 



