Threats: 



Category 



Description of threat 



3 



Timbering and replanting in pines j widening of 





highway NC 904; possible development as paxt 





of vacation—hunting lodge complex. 







Management recommendations: 



(1) Annual prescribed burning of the site should continue; 



(2) All vehicular traffic on the island, excepting the single 

 access road which traverses it, should be strictly prohibited; 



(3) Because the site contains at least four highly exploited 

 insectivorous species — Venus' flytrap ( Diona^a muscipula ), 

 a threatened endemic; trumpets ( Sarracenia flava ); pitcher- 

 plant (S, purpurea ) ; and hooded pitcher-plajit (S» minor ) — 



as well as a number of other rare and/or threatened and endan- 

 gered plant species, populations of these notable plants 

 should be monitored to ensure their protection and continued 

 survival; 



Cf) It is possible, due to the relatively fragile nature of some 

 of the wetter portions of this site and the ready public 

 access to the area, that some form of restricted access will 

 prove necesseury in the future. 



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