Name of area: Piver Bays Bog . 



County : Brunswick 



Location description: The Piver Bays Bog area is reached by travelling 

 west 0,25 mi. on highway NG I30 from its juncture with Co, Rd. 1335. 

 The bog is located approximately 15ra south of NC I30. 



Elevation: l8.3m (60 ft.) above sea level. . 



Physiographic region: Atlantic Plain Province: Coastal Plain 

 Section: Sea Islands Downwarp 



Topographic quad nap reference: Exum 1:31680 (nap attached). 



Size: ca . 1,5 acres, ■ • 



Ownership information: International Paper Company (?) 



Shallotte, N.C. 28k39, 



Report prepared by: Timothy D. Nifong 



Box 29 » Coker Rail 

 Dept. of Botany, UTIC 

 Chapel Hill, N.C. 2751'^. 



Other persons knowledgeable about site: Steve Leonard 



Dept. of Biology 

 JT.orida State University 

 Tallahassee, Florida. 



Current use and protection status: 



There is currently no known usage of this area. However, because it 

 is in a location and situation very similar to that of the Cypress Creek 

 Bog — adjacent to highway NC I30 and partially within a power line easenent, 

 and on relatively non-productive paper company land — the Piver Bays Bog 

 is subject to the same sorts of possible threats as is the Cypress Creek 

 Bog area. These include possible use of herbicides by the power company 

 to maintain power line right-of-v;ay clearance, possible clearing and sub- 

 sequent replanting of the area by the o\imer, and a possible widening of 

 highway NC I30 (see Cypress Creek Bog Natural Area report). 



Vegetation and plant communities: 



With respect to vegetational communities, the Piver Bays Bog is very 

 similar to the Cypress Creek Bog area occurring some 15 miles northwest- 

 ward. The primary difference relates to the fact that the Piver Bays Bog 

 lies adjacent to NC 130 at a point where the road dissects the inner por- 

 tions of a series of adjacent Carolina bays; consequently, there is much less 

 of an extended, raised flat surrounding the Piver Bays Bog than surrounds 

 the Cypress Creek Bog, and the vegetational communities surrounding the Piver 

 ^ bog are thusly sonev/hat more homogeneous than those plant communities sur- 

 rounding the Cypress Creek Bog, The bog vegetation and the surrounding bay 



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