Conceptual Development By:

Melissa Carle

Jennifer Rouse

NC Division of Coastal Management

Department of Environment

and Natural Resources

2006

Lower Cape Fear River Module

Content and Design by:  Melissa Carle, NC Division of Coastal Management

Maps by:  Melissa Carle and Jennifer Rouse

Materials for Bald Head Island Island lesson compiled by:

Ashleigh Brown, Bald Head Island Conservancy

Funding provided by:

National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration

Coastal Zone Management Act

Pictures provided by:

Bald Head Island Conservancy

Cape Fear River Assembly

Greensboro Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau

HarpersWeekly.com

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Biologic Image Infrastructure

National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration

National Parks Service

NC Division of Coastal Management

NC National Heritage Program

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

U.S. Forest Service

U.S. Geological Survey

Sources for map data:

County Soil Survey Data - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource

Conservation Service, variable source dates

Available at: http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/

Digital Elevation Data - NC Department of Transportation, 2004, Created from

NC Floodplain Mapping Program Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data

Available at: http://www.ncdot.org/it/gis/DataDistribution/ContourElevationData/default.html

Source LIDAR data available at: http://www.ncfloodmaps.com

Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) - U.S. Geological Survey, 1993

Available at: http://nationalmap.gov/

Forest Cover Types: National Atlas of the United States - U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey, 2002

Available at: http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/foresti.html

Geology of North Carolina (1:250,000) - NC DEHNR, Division of Land Resources,

Geological Survey, 1998

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

Level III and Level IV Ecoregions of North Carolina - U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, 2002

Available at: http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions/ncsc_eco.htm

Major Hydrography - North Carolina Center for Geographic Information Analysis, 1999

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

North Carolina County Boundaries (1:100,000) - North Carolina Center for Geographic

Information Analysis, 2003

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

North Carolina Municipal Boundaries, Powell Bill - North Carolina Department of

Transportation, GIS Unit, 1999

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

North Carolina River Basins - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource

Conservation Service, 1998

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

North Carolina Statewide Land Cover (1996) - Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat), 1998,

distributed by the NC Center for Geographic Information Analysis (CGIA)

Available at: http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/cgdb/catalog.html

North Carolina Coastal Wetlands Inventory - North Carolina Division of

Coastal Management, 1994

Available at: http://www.nccoastalmanagement.net/Wetlands/download.htm

Topography Maps (Digital Raster Graphics) - U.S. Geological Survey, variable source dates

Available at: http://topomaps.usgs.gov/drg/

Technical References:

Adam, P.  1990.  Saltmarsh Ecology.  Cambridge University Press, New York: 461 pp.

Mitch, W.J. and J.G. Gosselink.  2000.  Wetlands, Third Edition.  John Wiley and Sons, New

   York: 920 pp.

Schafale, M.P. and A.S. Weakley.  1990.  Classification of the Natural Communities of North

   Carolina, Third Approximation.  North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Natural Heritage

   Program. http://www.ncnhp.org/Images/Other Publications/class.pdf

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