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Add to our base of conservation ownership for future generations of the wildlife species associated with the habitat, as well as the use and enjoyment of them by future generations of North Carolinians. +
Protect examples in the most sheltered sites, and those that serve as landscape connections to other patches. +
Continue to support partnerships like the [[Southern Blue Ridge]] Fire Learning Network and the North Carolina Prescribed Fire Council to expand efforts at restoring disturbance regimes. +
Identify the best remaining examples of this habitat in the Mountains and western [[Piedmont]] and then to pursue easements or acquisition. The efforts of land trusts and government agencies should be coordinated to target the highest priority sites. +
Use land use planning to minimize development within large, unfragmented tracts of all woodland types in the western [[Piedmont]]. +
Work cooperatively with other agencies to define sustainable forestry criteria for biomass production. +
Provide landowners with the option to purchase longleaf seedlings that stay in the grass stage longer. This will allow the trees to better establish their root systems in the hurricane zone, and will also provide a longer period of high-quality early successional habitat. +
Give high priority to protecting and expanding the few remaining examples regardless of climate change. Because these systems are likely to withstand the stresses of changing climate well, restoring more of them in the near future would produce more resilient natural landscapes. +
Facilitate the development of state and local policies that support the use of LID practices to reduce runoff (APNEP 2012). +
Facilitate the use of BMPs on agricultural and silvicultural lands (APNEP 2012).Runoff can carry sediments, nitrogen, phosphorus, pesticides, and other substances into the sounds. +
Focus habitatprotection measures on utilizing existing regulatory frameworks to protect both the habitatand these species (e.g., state and federal endangered species laws, wetland protection laws, etc.). +
Facilitate protection of designated anadromous fish spawning areas and inland primary nursery areas from marina impacts (APNEP 2012). +
Establish marsh habitats in cleared areas that are likely to become wetlands in the future due to inundation or frequent flooding. +
Protect conservation corridors that run from shorelines inland to facilitate habitat migration (DeWan et al. 2010). +
Establish oyster reefs and SAV beds offshore to help buffer shorelines (DeWan et al. 2010; Pearsall and Poulter 2005). +
Consider establishing marine reserves to provide refuge from fishing pressure, facilitate adult migration patterns and larval dispersal pathways, and support fisheries restoration efforts (DiBacco et al. 2006). +
Fully utilize government conservation programs and incentives (e.g., Farm Bill programs) and partnerships with private landowners to stem the conversion of suitable bogs to other uses. +
Actively pursue conservation ownership through acquisition of mountain bogs in concert with state and federal agency partners (e.g., US Fish and Wildlife Service [USFWS], US Forest Service, National Parks Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NC Division of Parks and Recreation, NC Natural Heritage Program, local governments, etc.) as well as private conservation partners (e.g., The Nature Conservancy,land trusts). +
Protect tidal freshwater wetlands in rivers and upper sounds, some of which will become the extensive estuarine communities in the future. Salt and brackish marshes will benefit from this. +
Protect buffers and floodplain rivers, as this will benefit estuaries by reducing pollutant input and reducing drastic changes in freshwater input. +