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159 <br /> There are several downed/fallen trees in the understory but not nearly as much as in Area <br /> 1. The soils in this area are well drained with gentle slopes (4-8%). <br /> Management Area 2 Recommendations <br /> The recommendations for this area are identical to Management Area 1 (options #1 & <br /> 0). If harvesting occurs, your consulting forester should make sure that the area is <br /> clearly marked so that the loggers do not cut near the sprinklers in Area 5. <br /> Melraellll t Area 2A <br /> Area Description <br /> Management Area 2A; +/-4.4 acres, is very similar to Area 2, but the trees are slightly <br /> larger and there is an abundance of invasive plant species. Presently, the trees are 13-23 <br /> inches in diameter (at breast height) and are 75-85 feet tall. The midstory and understory <br /> are fairly open and consist of eastern red cedar, red maple, blackgum, white oak, post <br /> oak, blackjack oak, American beech, elm,persimmon, eastern red bud, wax myrtle, <br /> multiflora rose, leatherleaf mahonia, Chinese privet, Japanese stilt grass, Russian olive, <br /> hellebore, Christmas fern, Chinese silvergrass, Japanese honeysuckle, and daffodil. The <br /> soils in this area are well and somewhat poorly drained with gentle slopes (2-6%). <br /> Management Area 2A Recommendations <br /> The recommendations for this area are also identical to Management Areas 1 (options#1 <br /> &#3) & 2. I would most likely recommend that replant this area in loblolly pine <br /> seedlings, since that is what is currently growing now. <br /> A major focus in this area should be maintaining water quality, since there is a stream <br /> that intersects this area. Appropriate forested buffers should be left along this area during <br /> harvesting in accordance with the Jordan Lake Buffer Rules (Cape Fear River Basin). <br /> See below for more information about buffer rules and rules affecting harvesting near <br /> streams. <br /> Another major focus of this area, and several other areas on the property, should be <br /> eradication(or at least controlling) exotic, invasive plants to help promote the <br /> regeneration of native flora and increase plant diversity. See the section on invasive plant <br /> control later in the plan. <br /> An old pond, with breached dam, exists in this area. It is currently providing excellent <br /> habitat for amphibians and reptiles and could either be fixed (drained and dam repaired) <br /> and used for fishing purposes, or maintained as is to continue providing habitat for <br /> 6 <br />