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45 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Lands Legacy Program Action Plan 2018-2020 <br /> • Action plan objectives include: <br /> o High-priority Natural Areas(NHNAs) adjacent to existing conservation lands <br /> o Collaboration with towns for open space acquisition, including trails, greenways, and <br /> connecting important open space <br /> • Priority projects include: <br /> o Upper Eno Preserve—lands adjacent to 7-Mile Creek and trail link to Riverwalk <br /> o Farmland easements—priority water supply watersheds and riparian buffers <br /> o Jordan Lake Headwaters Preserve <br /> o Corridors between New Hope Creek and Eno River <br /> • Acquisition objectives include riparian buffers for the Upper Eno River,Upper New Hope Creek, <br /> Bolin Creek, and others <br /> New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan: Proposals for Linking Duke Forest and Eno River <br /> State Park(1993) <br /> Priorities include: <br /> • To protect a 200-foot wildlife corridor running from Eno River State Park to Duke Forest along <br /> Rhodes Creek and parallel to Southern Railway <br /> • A wildlife underpass at the I-85/US-70 interchange <br /> Mountains-to-Sea Trail Route Map (2018) <br /> The Orange County Mountains-to-Sea Trail Route map, adopted in January 2018, shows existing and <br /> proposed sections of the trail through Orange County. <br /> Eno Economic Development District Small Area Plan (2008, amended 2009) <br /> Priorities include: <br /> • Wildlife crossing structure(s)upon redesign of 1-85/US-70 interchange <br /> • To preserve stream corridors and create public trails between developed areas and Eno River <br /> State Park and Duke Forest <br /> Stoney Creek Basin Small Area Plan(1996) <br /> Priorities include: <br /> • Protection of natural terrain features and sensitive ecological areas, especially Duke Forest, <br /> wildlife corridors along Stoney Creek, and NHNAs identified in inventories <br /> • The Stoney Creek corridor lies 100 meters(328 feet)on each side of Stoney Creek and connects <br /> Duke Forest and the Eno River. <br /> Town of Carrboro <br /> Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area(1999) <br /> The Land Use Plan Map for the Northern Study Area proposed potential locations of four new parks (as <br /> recommended in the town's Recreation and Parks Master Plan),three of them accessible from the <br /> proposed Bolin Creek greenway. In particular,the plan focuses on aiming for more than a small 10-acre <br /> park on UNC's Horace Williams Tract,to encompass natural areas within the Bolin Creek floodplain and <br /> a remaining hardwood forest stand. <br /> 32 A Landscape Plan for Wildlife Habitat Connectivity <br />