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APPENDIX 1 : <br /> OCCONEECHEE MOUNTAIN NATURAL AREA <br /> a. Name of site. Occoneechee Mountain. <br /> b. Location. Orange County, North Carolina. Sw. of Hillsborough. <br /> USGS Quad. Hillsborough, NC; 7 1/2' , 1968. <br /> 36° 03' 45" N; 78° 07' 15" W. <br /> c. Ownership. <br /> d. Approximate acreage. Unknown. <br /> e. Land use. None. <br /> f. Description of site. The Occoneechee Mountain Area is a relatively undis- <br /> turbed north slope of approximately 20° over quartzite. The community <br /> is primarily chestnut oak--low heath grading into a scrub pine-low <br /> heath on a sharp ridge and down slope into a red oak--tall heath and a <br /> limited beech zone above a narrow belt of bottomland hardwoods. The <br /> canopy trees range from 12-24" DBH. This is a typical montane community <br /> found in the eastern Piedmont. Montane disjuncts on the site are Rhodo- <br /> dendron catawbiense (Purple Laurel) , Fothergilla major, Aralia nudi- <br /> caulis, Osmunda claytoniana (Interrupted fern) , and Asplenium montanum <br /> (Mountain Spleenwort) . The rare Asplenium bradleyi (Bradley's Spleen- <br /> wort) has been reported from the mountain by Robert Teulings (personal <br /> comment). See appendix for species list for the north slope. <br /> . . f <br /> g. Dangers to integrity. Possibility of real estate development. <br /> h. Data source. Emily Wood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. <br /> i. Other knowledgeable persons. A. E. Radford, Department of Botany, University <br /> of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. <br /> j . Scientific references. None. <br /> k. Publicity sensitivity. None. <br /> 1. Additional comments. None. <br />