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 SIZE: Each bay is ca. 40 acres in extent 



GEOLOGICAL FORMATION: Flanner Beach Formation, Pleistocene. This 

 pair of Carolina Bays lies with a pair of larger less distinct 

 Carolina Bays. All these bays lie along the NW side of a 

 well-defined series of relict beach ridges of Pleistocene age, 

 the "Newport Barrier". Mixon,R.B. & O.H. Pilkey, 1976. 

 Reconnaissance Geology of the Submerged and Emerged Coast il 

 Plain Province, Cape Lookout Area.U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

 Paper 859. US Govt. Print. Off, 



DRAINAGE: Probably no surface drainage irom bays. Subsurface drainage 

 probably into Bogue Sound via Gales and Broad Creek. 



ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES PRESENT: There are a few Venus 



Flytraps ( Dionaea muscipula ) along the slope of the rim around 

 Carolina Bay A. 



POTENTIAL FOR ENDANGERED L THREATENED SPECIES: Red-cockaded 



woodpeckers sometimes nest in pond pines in pocosin and Carolina 

 Bays, especially after fire. Although no rare species were seen, 

 the marsh and marsh edge at the southeast end of Carolina Bay A 

 is a situation where rare species might be expected. In the 

 future, Carolina Bays themselves may be considered threatened 

 entities. Fussell found a dead eastern diamondback rattlesnake 

 (Endangered) on Millis Road, 1-2 miles from here in May 1973, 

 so that species may occur here. 



SITE INTEGRITY: There is no evidence of recent disturb.ince in the 

 bays themselves. Mature longleaf pine tiTnb.r on the bay rims 

 was clearcut ten or more years ago, and loblolly pin^is have 

 been replanted there. 



(JV7NER: USDA, Forest Service, Croatan National Forest. 



OTHER KNOWLEDEABLE PERSONS: Michael Alford, Jeannie Wilson, 

 Hampton Mariners Museum, Beaufort, N.C. 2R516. 



COMMENTS: Although Carolina bays are not now rare in Carteret 



County, they are being increasingly destroyed and altered by 

 human activities, and relatively unaltered examples will 

 probably be rare in a few years. 



