                   
last updated
June 26, 2008
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Natural History
 Refuge lands once the southern extremity of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Concentrations of ducks, geese tundra swans, raptors and black bears.
Re-introduction site of endangered red wolf.
Open water 6,291 acres; riverine swamp 25,427 acres; pocosin wetlands 50,319 acres; agriculture 1,200 acres; grass fields 25,828 acres; pine hardwood forest 1,486 acres; other 3,123 acres.
Focus Activities
Waterfowl management on 12,000 acre Pungo Unit.
Management of unique pocosin habitat.
Extensive wetland restoration has begun on 19,000 acres
Reforestation of Atlantic white cedar.
Habitat Description
Predominant vegetation type is southeastern shrub bog which is also known as pocosin. This type is characterized by a very dense growth of mostly broadleaf evergreen shrubs with scattered pond pine.
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