The recording of a recent online isolated wetlands management workshop hosted by the North Carolina Forest Service, NC State University, The Nature Conservancy, and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Division is now online. The workshop focused on isolated wetlands in North Carolina, but included strategies and discussion topics that could be relevant to sites elsewhere in the southeastern US. Check out the workshop agenda:
- Welcome, introduction, and participant poll – Jeff Hall (NCWRC), Julian Wilson (NCFS)
- Importance of Bladen Lakes region for wetland restoration – Jeff Marcus (TNC)
- Splendid Isolation: The importance of isolated wetlands to herpetofauna in North Carolina– Jeff Beane (NCMNS)
- Rare Plants of Isolated Wetlands in Southeastern NC – Katherine Culatta (NCPCP)
- Isolated wetland natural communities– Mike Schafale (NCNHP)
- Habitat degradation, restoration strategies, & examples from FL – Mike Sisson (NCWRC)
- Examples of wetland restoration in NC – Jeff Humphries (NCWRC)
- Fire and wetland management – Ken Shughart (NCWRC)
- Round Robin overview of key conservation lands in region
- Bladen Lakes State Forest – Hans Rohr (NCFS)
- Bay Tree Lake/Jones Lake/Singletary Lake State Parks – Ed Corey (NCSP)
- Suggs Mill Pond & Whitehall Game Lands – Ken Shughart
- Key private lands (Broadwell/Bayfields) – Richard Broadwell
- Overview of field trip logistics and objectives
- Closing remarks
