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Regulate human activities on steep slopes that may cause excessive erosion or mud slides, and develop and implement BMPs to mitigate erosion. +
Where possible, allow fire to burn through transition zones to maintain these sites instead of plowing fire lines through them. +
Suppress Fire Ant colonies—particularly where multi-queen colonies have developed—in all protected natural areas. +
Restore landscape integrity to protect insect populations associated with Longleaf Pine habitats. +
Evaluate sustainable forestry criteria established by European countries that use woody biomass for fuel to generate preliminary guidelines for biomass production in North Carolina (Buford and Neary 2010 in DeWan et al. 2010). +
Develop strategies for pine straw raking that minimizes impacts to understory habitat structure. +
Planning and locating wastewater treatment facilities to areas above sea level will minimize or eliminate risks (APNEP 2012). +
Restore areas capable of supporting SAVs. This will require study of effective restoration techniques, bathymetric mapping, water quality monitoring, and other efforts (APNEP 2012). +
Develop and refine ecological flow requirements for each major river (APNEP 2012) that drains to estuarine waters. +
Reduce potential water pollution by protecting critical buffer areas of upstream drainages, sound planning, adopting low-impact development (LID) criteria, and other best practices. +
Establish contaminant management strategies for waters not meeting water quality standards. Strategies that addresspathogens, toxics, and nutrients are needed, not just the traditional total maximum daily load (TMDL) plans which primarily manage industrial point sources and municipal stormwater (APNEP 2012). +
Where practical, restore marsh habitatby filling drainage ditches and install tide gates in agricultural fields so that sea water does not flow inland through them (DeWan et al. 2010). +
Consider closing fisheries for declining species during the spawning season. +
Allow barrier islands to migrate, as it increases their chance of survival and reduces the chance of sudden and drastic changes in tidal regime in the estuaries. +
Where practical, restore marsh habitat by filling drainage ditches and installing ditch plugs and water control structures. Ditches may accelerate erosion and the effects of rising sea level such as saltwater intrusion. +
Protect suitable nesting habitat for sea turtles and beach-nesting birds to maintain robust populations as disturbance and sea level rise issues mount. +
Continue working with the US Army Corps of Engineers and others to direct dredged material or conduct other management actions to refurbish waterbird nesting islands. +
Continue coordination with the NC Division of Marine Fisheries to minimize bycatch of protected/priority species in fishing gear. +
Control or minimize the amount of large gull depredation on other beach-nesting birds. These large gulls did not nest in the state until recent decades but are now greatly increasing in number and are causing more pressure on beach-nesting bird populations. +
Explore techniques for restoration of tidal swamp forest and wetlands. +