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B. CAMP NEW HOPE <br /> e/o NC86 <br /> tmr: 7 .9 . .5 <br /> C . CAMP PIPSISSEWA <br /> n/s New Hope Church Rd . [SR1723] <br /> tmr: 7 . 10 . .7E <br /> Pines of Carolina Girl Scout camp <br /> D . NEW HOPE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ( VFD) <br /> n/s Whitfield Rd . [SR17311 <br /> tmr: 7 . 16 . .59 <br /> V . Biological <br /> A . DUKE FOREST <br /> The forest is seperated into six managerial and ten <br /> geographic areas of over 8,000 acres in Orange and <br /> Durham Counties . Although the bulk of forest land in <br /> Orange County in is northern Chapel Hill Township, <br /> there is also Duke Forest land in Eno, Hillsborough, <br /> and Cheeks Townships . "Natural Heritage Areas" within <br /> the forest amount to over 760 acres , including the New <br /> Hope Creek Natural Area, Oosting Natural Area, post <br /> oak-blackjack site, Meadow Flats, Blackwood Mountain, <br /> and Bald Mountain . Numerous significant plant <br /> communities, geologic formations, and <br /> endangered/threatened species exist in the forest . For <br /> additional information see specific sites below and <br /> Appendix 3: Duke Forest Natural Areas . <br /> B. BLACKWOOD MOUNTAIN <br /> e/o Old NC86 CSR1009] n/o Eubanks Rd . CSR1727] <br /> Part of area is in Duke Forest . <br /> tmr: <br /> Good example of low monadnocks which dot the eastern <br /> Piedmont. The forest canopy contains twenty species <br /> dominated primarily by white oak (Querecul Dlta) and <br /> chestnut oak (Q, prtDus) . The understory contains <br /> thirty-two species with dogwood (Corpus sourwood <br /> ( Oxydend iim aboreu,m) , and red maple (Acer rubrj ) <br /> comprising about 2/3 of the vegitation . The Shrub and <br /> Herb layer contains fifty-eight species, gooseberry <br /> ( VacciDIMD stamineum) being the most common . The upper <br /> northeast slope of the mountain was cultivated as <br /> recently as seventy-five years ago and is now occupied <br /> by a pine stand . Within 1 -40 corridor . <br /> -7z <br />