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=2757 w130 <br /> former house was moved to this site from a nearby Snipes family property and is used <br /> as a music studio(unheated). <br /> A former private road that once bisected the property and led from Bradshaw Quarry <br /> Road down to Cane Creek was closed off in May 1988. The road was relocated and <br /> renamed Mitchell Mountain Road,and begins on the east side of Apple Mill Road. <br /> The Shys' donated an acre of land along their southwest boundary for construction of <br /> the new entrance to Mitchell Mountain Road. The former roadway(now Castell <br /> Lane)is a private road serving only the Shy residence and a future home site on Lot <br /> 2. See Attachment H. <br /> The meadow is located between the house and pond, and includes two native <br /> wildflower plots established by the Shys in recent years. The pond is fed by an <br /> unnamed stream,which flows into Lot 1-A from the Smith property. The stream <br /> flows from the pond spillway into Lot 1-B,then under Bradshaw Quarry Road to <br /> Tom's Creek,which flows south to Cane Creek Reservoir. <br /> Roughly 80 percent of Lot 1-A is wooded with a robust stand of 50-to 60-year-old <br /> hardwoods(e.g.,oaks,hickory,shagbark hickory,poplar). The canopy is largely <br /> intact,which has helped to minimize the introduction of invasive exotic plant species. <br /> Former logging roads are maintained as walking trails. One such trail begins east of <br /> the house and loops around the southeast corner of the property. The beginning of the <br /> trail features a stony area where native flowers are planted and cared for. Whimsical <br /> ornaments hang from trees for the amusement of the Shys' grandchildren. The trail <br /> winds clockwise through the forest,past some fallen trees downed during recent <br /> windstorms,past an area designated as a future Shy family cemetery, and back north <br /> toward the house and outbuildings. An abandoned section of the former roadway is <br /> growing in with young pines through the gravel. <br /> Lot 1-B <br /> This parcel is comprised of roughly one-half woodlands(mixed hardwoods)and one- <br /> half cleared agricultural field. The private road(Castell Lane)bisects this parcel into <br /> two sections. The area north of the road is entirely wooded and includes an unnamed <br /> stream,which flows into Lot 1-B from the pond(Lot 1-A) and under Bradshaw <br /> Quarry Road. South of the road is mostly rolling pasture leased for agricultural <br /> production. An intermittent stream flows through the southwest corner of the <br /> property and under Bradshaw Quarry Road. A forested buffer is maintained along <br /> both sides of the stream. <br /> Lot 2 <br /> The irregularly shaped Lot 2 is surrounded on three sides by Lot 1-R and is accessed from <br /> Castell Lane,which also helps form the northern boundary. Lot 2 is bounded to the south by <br /> Mitchell Mountain Road(private) and an undeveloped woodland property owned by <br /> OWASA. Across Mitchell Mountain Rd. is a forested tract owned by the Apple family. <br /> About 60 to 70 percent of Lot 2 is forested with mixed hardwoods(30-70 years old). A <br /> narrow band of pines grow along the edge of the woodlands. An open field runs from Castell <br /> Lane through the middle of Lot 2 and west into Lot 1-R(Lot 1-B). The field is leased to an <br /> Page 4 of 6 <br />