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HARVESTER ROAD TALL POCOSIN 

 NATURAL AREA INVENTORY 



Basic Information Summary Sheet : 



1. Natural Area Name 

 Harvester Road Tall Pocosin 



2 . County 



Tyrrell « 



3. Location: Southwest corner of Tyrrell County. The route to this 



area is by farm roads and too complicated for description. 

 See Figures 1 and 16. 



4. Topographic quadrangle: 



New Lake - 7.5 min. 

 New Lake NW - 7.5 min. 

 Creswell SE - 7.5 min. 



5. Size: 7989 acres 



6. Elevation: 10 feet - 17 feet 



7. Access: By various canal and farm roads. See Figure 17. 



8. Names of investigators: 



Charles B. McDonald - East Carolina University 

 Andrew N. Ash - East Carolina University 



9. Date(s) of investigation 



2/2/80 

 5/16/80 



9A. Prose description of site: 



This area ia a large tract of tall pocosin. The dominant is 

 pond pine (Pinus serotina ) but its density is usually not great 

 enough to close the canopy. The shrub layer is extremely dense 

 consisting of such species as dangleberry (Gaylussacia f rondosa ) , 

 bitter gallberry (Ilex glabra ) , Zenobia (Zenobia pulverulenta ) , and 

 greenbriar (Smilax laurifolia ) . Most of the vegetation does not 

 seem particularly old. The sweet bays (Magnolia virginiana ) and 

 loblolly bays (Gordonia lasianthus ) still have their youthful 

 growth form, many of the pond pines have not developed crowns, and 

 the shrubs are mostly only knee to waist high. The age is about 30 

 years which makes sense because this is part of the large pocosin 

 south of Lake Phelps that was first cleared for agriculture in the 

 early 1950' s. 



