2019 Wetland Treasures

Bluff Mountain Fen

• Location: Bluff Mountain Preserve in Ashe County, NC
• Wetland Type: Southern Appalachian Fen
• Owner: The Natural Conservancy
• Unique Feature: Only known wetland type in the region
• Factsheet
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Photo provide by The Nature Conservancy

Croatan National Forest

• Location: Craven, Carteret, and Jones counties, NC
• Wetland Types: Pocosins, Carolina bays, salt marsh and more
• Owner: U.S. Forest Service
• Unique Feature: Approximately 75% of the Croatan may be considered wetlands with pocosins comprising the majority of the wetland acreage.
• Factsheet
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Photo by David Blevins

Merchants Millpond

• Location: Gates County, NC
• Wetland Type: Cypress Gum Swamp (Blackwater)
• Owner: North Carolina State Parks
• Unique Feature: Created 190 years ago, coastal pond and southern swamp forest mingle, creating one of North Carolina’s rarest ecological communities.
• Factsheet 
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Photo courtesy of Chuck Richardson

Santee Coastal Preserve

• Location: Charleston County, SC
• Wetland Type:
• Owner: South Carolina Division of Park and Recreation
• Unique Feature: Once a rice plantation, this reserve provides essential habitat for many species of wildlife, including migratory and wintering waterfowl, shorebirds and wading birds, and Loggerhead sea turtles.
• Factsheet 
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Photo by Charles Slate

Woods Bay 

• Location: Florence, Clarendon, and Sumter counties, SC
• Wetland Type: Carolina Bay
• Owner: SC Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
• Unique Feature: The park is the home to one of the last remaining, relatively undisturbed, large Carolina bays on the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain.
• Factsheet 
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