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0110 <br /> The second source, based on actual field surveys, is the Inventory of the Natural Areas and Wildlife <br /> Habitats of Oran a County N.C. which provides information concerning "palustrine" or wetland <br /> communities. The most common of these communities are the Piedmont Alluvial Forest and the <br /> Piedmont Bottomknd Forest associated with the floodplains of streams and rivers. Much more <br /> uncommon is the Piedmont Swamp Forest, which is restricted to the Triassic Basin area found only in <br /> the southeastern comer of the county. One of the best remaining examples of this natural community in <br /> the eastern Piedmont is the old growth swamp forest of the Big Oak Woods. <br /> Since Orange County is a headwater region, large streams are lacking. Only at the southwestern <br /> comer, where the Haw River forms several miles of the county border, is there a large enough river <br /> system to deposit the amount of sediments needed for the development of the Piedmont Levee Forest <br /> community. This community, dominated by river birch, box elder, and ash, occurs only in a narrow <br /> portion of the Haw River. <br /> Three other wetland communities have a restricted distribution in Orange County. The Rocky Bar mad <br /> Shore, dominated by perennial herbs, is present on shoals in the Eno River. Several beaver ponds, <br /> classified as semi permanent impoundments, occur on smaller streams throughout the county, most <br /> notably in places where the natural topography allows for the development of a wide impoundment, as <br /> at sites on tributaries of the Little River. At these locations, marshes have developed in the wetland <br /> produced by the beaver ponds. <br /> A third uncommon wetland community, the Upkmd Depression Swamp Forest, is found in flat or <br /> depressed upland areas that hold water for long periods of time. Such upland depressions vary in size. <br /> One depression in the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest covers dozens of acres,while several much <br /> smaller pools near the Eno River are less than an acre. These depressions are characterized by species <br /> that are more common to low-lying swamp forest. <br /> Wetland communities identified in the Inventory of the Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats of <br /> Oran a County. N.C. are listed in the accompanying table by type and location. Because there is <br /> considerable overlap between satellite and data, only bottomland hardwood forests and the <br /> system of streams, marshy areas, and ponds from the NWI are shown on the Wetlands Map. The <br /> location of each wetland cone mity site is shown on the Natural Areas/Wildlife Habitats Map. <br />
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