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56 <br /> (a) The Trail may be used only for walking, nature study, and the like. <br /> (b) Use is limited to the hours between dawn and dusk. <br /> (c) Smoking or lighting of fires is prohibited. <br /> (d) Consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited. <br /> (e) Trapping or hunting is prohibited. <br /> 4.2. Mechanized Vehicles. There shall be no use of motorized vehicles on the Trail Area <br /> except as necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation and management of the North <br /> Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail and associated trail and recreational accessories as described <br /> herein. <br /> 4.3. Industrial or Commercial Use: Industrial and commercial activities are prohibited in the <br /> Trail Area. <br /> 4.4. Residential Use, Structures, and Signs. There shall be no residential use of the Trail <br /> Area. There shall be no constructing or placing of any building, mobile home, billboard or other <br /> advertising display, antenna, utility pole, tower, conduit line, or any other temporary or <br /> permanent structure or facility on or above the Trail Area except for the following: placement <br /> and display of no trespassing signs, local, state or federal traffic or similar informational signs, <br /> boundary fencing, signs identifying the Conservation Values of the Trail Area, and/or signs <br /> identifying Grantor as owner of the Property and Grantee as holder of this Easement, signs <br /> identifying the Trail Area as a part of the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail, signs giving <br /> directions or prescribing rules and regulations for the use of the Trail Area, educational and <br /> interpretative signs, identification labels or any other similar temporary or permanent signs. <br /> 4.5. Agricultural, Timber Harvesting, Grazing and Horticultural Use. Agricultural, timber <br /> harvesting, grazing, horticultural and animal husbandry operations are prohibited; provided that <br /> this provision shall not prohibit plantings for wildlife habitat or wildlife management. <br /> 4.6. Disturbance of Natural Features, Plants and Animals. There shall be no cutting or <br /> removal of trees, or the disturbance of other natural features on the Trail Area except for the <br /> following: (i) as incidental to boundary marking or railing as allowed hereunder; and (ii) cutting <br /> or clearing of vegetation for insect or disease control, control of non-native plants, removal of <br /> trees that threaten to fall on the Trail Area or on land outside the boundaries of the Trail Area <br /> and as necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation and management of the North <br /> Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail and allowed Trail and Recreational Accessories. Design and <br /> construction of the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail will be planned and built to minimize <br /> environmental impacts to the extent practical. <br /> 4.7. Wetlands and Water Quality. There shall be no pollution or alteration of surface waters <br /> in the Trail Area. There shall be no construction or other activities that would be detrimental to <br /> water quality or that would alter the natural water levels, drainage, sedimentation, or water flow <br /> in, on, or over the Trail Area or into any surface waters. There shall be no construction or other <br /> activities that would cause soil degradation or erosion. There shall be no diking, dredging, <br /> alteration, draining, filling, or removal of wetlands. <br /> -6- <br />