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Minutes - 20040623
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\Board of County Commissioners\Minutes - Approved\2000's\2004
RES-2004-047 Resolution Approving Special Use Permit, Class A for Orange County Middle School #3
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\Board of County Commissioners\Resolutions\2000-2009\2004
RES-2004-052 Resolution regarding Special Use Permit Class A For Orange County Middle School #3
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\Board of County Commissioners\Resolutions\2000-2009\2004
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42 <br />patches of natural vegetation sustain interior' species, protect streams and aquifers and provide <br />core habitat and escape cover for large vertebrates and permit natural disturbance regimes.. <br />Corridors <br />Corridors are lineaz spaces that differ from the land-uses on either side.. They can either e <br />bamers to the movement of plants and animals between patches or they can connect them and <br />permit movement between and among them; roads are bamers, streams are connections. Patches <br />that aze connected with comdors of woodland or wooded stream comdors allow movement of <br />plants and animals from patch to patch, thereby increasing the amount of'habitat available.. <br />Matrix or context <br />These patches and corridors aze enclosed within a matrix.. The matrix is the connecting element m <br />the landscape mosaic and the one, which exerts a major influence on the functions within it <br />Landscape EcoloEV of the Site <br />The Orange County Middle School II[ site can be described as a combination of forest patches of <br />varying sizes and types, mowed open fields and building sites. 'These aze all connected to each <br />other and to the larger surrounding azeas by Four Mile Branch tributary and the narrow strip of <br />woodland on the eastern edge of the field. The site patches aze embedded in a ]azger matrix of <br />woodlands.. Adjoining the site on the east is a large es of'suceessionaAd oining fire site on the it <br />was timbered two years ago and is now in eazly stag <br />west are two house sites and a ]azge patch of mixed woodlands. I-85/40, which borders on the <br />north and West Ten Rd., which borders on the south are significant bamers to wildlife. T'he <br />power line is a barrier but one of lesser significance as it is a barrier to some species that cannot <br />or will not cross it, but serves as a corridor to other species. <br />$ABITAT IlVTEGRTLY, TTiItEATS AND POTEN`I'IAIā¢ FOR HABITAT ENHANCEMENT <br />Habitat integrity <br />The maturity ofthe forests is an important chazacteristic for native wildlife and the proportion of <br />hazdwoods that make up the canopy indicates maturity.. The majority of the forests on the site are <br />some type of mature hardwoods which provide the habitats with the most wildlife value. In these <br />forests aze the vernal pools, which provide habitat for frogs and salamanders and numerous <br />macroinvertebrates and the stream, providing habitat for many species of macroinvertebrates. <br />Additionally natural bodies of water within forests increase the diversity of habitats.ln <br />Land in______ ~i~~e Co""f" for Its Wildlife Value (Wiley, Luddington, Hall 1999) the authors state <br />that forests on flood plarns mciude the greatest diversity of species of any habitat in Orange <br />County. <br />The size, shape and connections between patches of forest also aze important to native wildlife. <br />The Inventory of Natural Aieas and Wildlife in Orange Coun (Sather and Hall 1989) defwes <br />integrity as "....a measure of the qualrty of the b~olog~cal features of the site, It incorporates the <br />size and vigor of populations of the significant elements, the level of present disturbance of the <br />natural azea, and the size of the natural area which is a measure of expected long term viability of <br />the biological elements of the site." <br />The five categories of integrity are: <br />1) prime. The forest or offier vegetation is relatively mature and there aze no paved roads <br />ttansecting the natuml area.. <br />12 <br />
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