Carrot Island-Horse Island-Bird Shoal Complex 



Name of Area: Carrot Island, Horse Island, Bird Shoal, and 

 associated spoil islands. 



County: Carteret 



Location Description: The area covered by this report is all 

 high land and all intertidal land (mud and sand flats and 

 marshes) that is bounded by Taylor Creek on the north, 

 North River on the east, Beaufort Inlet on the south, and 

 Bulkhead Channel on the west. (See Map 2.) 



Topographic Quadrangle Map: Beaufort and Markers Island. 



Ownership: Recently acquired by the State of North Carolina 

 for management by the N.C. Office of Coastal Management 

 as the Rachel Carson National Estuarine Sanctuary. 



Report Prepared by: Jeannie Wilson and John 0. Fussell, III. 



Date: August 1979 



Other persons knowledgeable about site: 



JoAnne Powell, Hampton Mariners Museum, Beaufort, N.C. 28516. 

 Chairman of the Carteret County Environmental Resources Comm. 



Several individuals at the Duke University Marine Labora- 

 tory and the National Marine Fisheries Laboratory are 

 knowledgeable about the Bird Shoal area. Perhaps the two 

 most notable are: 



Dr. John Costlow (Director of the Duke University Marine 

 Laboratory) . He was instrumental in securing funds for 

 the purchase of the Carrot Island area to protect it from 

 development. One of Dr. Costlow's students in the 

 "homosapiens and the marine environment" course. Spring 

 1979, Lisa Blumenthal, prepared a report on management 

 guidelines for the Bird Shoal-Carrot Island area; and 



Dr. William Kirby-Smith (on the staff at Duke University 

 Marine Laboratory) . He is knowledgeable about the marine 

 invertebrates of the Bird Shoal area. 



Two other persons that are knowledgeable about the site, 

 because of their involvement in the effort to protect 

 Carrot Island from development and the effort to procure 

 funds to purchase it, are: 



James King, 1400 Front St., Beaufort, He was the leader 



of the citizens group that organized to protect Carrot .j 



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