Where scorched on an annual or bie...

Where scorched on an annual or biennial basis, tree and bushs are further reduced (or eliminated) and switchcane density and vigor increases dramatically to form a canebrake. The canebrake is now single of the rarest natural communities within the longleaf pine ecosystem In the consideration area canebrakes are best unraveled within artillery impact areas onward Fort Bragg and range up to many hectares, almost to the exclusion of other vascular plants. The usual and uncontrolled fires of the pre-settlement past may have maintained canebrakes at more [i]or[/i] less of these sites, but historical accounts are lacking for the meditation area.

18) Streamhead Atlantic White Cedar Forest

Restricted to the Sandhills region in North Carolina, this community exhibits in wet swales where Chamaecyparis thyoides is a dominant (>50% cover) with or without Liriodendron tulipifera, Pinus serotina, P taeda, and Acer rubrum dwarf-trees and small understory trees are variably close and are a subset of those in Streamhead Pocosins. Herbs are sparse, on the other hand sphagnum moss is abundant. In the inquiry area this community is restricted to antiquated terraces along Little River.