This study was conducted for the Strategic Environmental Research and Develop-ment Program (SERDP) under Work Item ES8, "Regional Guidelines for Managing Threatened and Endangered Species Habitats." The technical monitor was Dr. Femi A. Ayorinde, Cleanup and Conservation Program Manager, SERDP. Mr. Bradley P. Smith is the Executive Director, SERDP.
The work was performed by the Natural Resource Assessment and Management Division (LL-N) of the Land Management Laboratory (LL), U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL). Ms. Harper was employed as a Research Associate under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Range and Forest Experiment Station, and Colorado State University. Ms. Harper was responsible for community classification, while Mr. Woolery and Mr. Robertson provided information on community impacts and management. Ms. Ann-Marie Trame, CERL principal investigator, coordinated preparation of this report. Information on animal species was the responsibility of Dr. Richard A. Fischer, and overall coordination for the work unit was the responsibility of Mr. Chester O. Martin, both from the Natural Resources Division (NRD), Environmental Laboratory (EL), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, MS. Dr. Harold E. Balbach is Acting Chief, CECER/LL-N. Dr. John T. Bandy is Operations Chief, CECER-LL; and Dr. William Severinghaus is the responsible Technical Director, CECER-LL. The CERL technical editor was Gloria J. Wienke, Technical Information Team.
Dr. Michael J. O'Connor is Director of CERL.
Contents
SF 298 1
Foreword 2
List of Figures and Tables 5
1 Introduction 7
Background 7
Objectives 8
Approach 8
Scope 9
Mode of Technology Transfer 10
2 Overview of the Peatland Communities 11
Bay Forests 12
Atlantic White Cedar Forests 17
Pond Pine Woodland 18
Basin Pocosins 19
Streamhead Pocosin 22
Cypress Domes 23
Occurrence on Military Installations 25
3 Biodiversity and TES 26
4 Land Use Practices 31
Forestry 31
Agriculture 32
Fire 33
5 Community Quality 35
The Use of a Community Quality Assessment 35
Indicators of Community Quality 36
6 Impacts and Management 41
Forestry Activities 41
Fire Management 51
Hydrologic Management 57
Chemical Pollution 59
7 Summary 61
Appendix A: Detailed Ecological Description of Bay Forest Communities 65
Appendix B: Detailed Ecological Description of Atlantic White Cedar Forest Communities 69
Appendix C: Detailed Ecological Description of Pond Pine Woodland Communities 73
Appendix D: Detailed Ecological Description of Basin Pocosin Communities 77
Appendix E: Detailed Ecological Description of Streamhead Pocosin Communities 82
Appendix F: Detailed Ecological Description of Cypress Dome Communities 85
Appendix G: Community Quality Evaluation and Management 89
References 92
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