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Helene's Notes 3 September
Assets 1. Cultural components 2. Air Quality 3. Watershed 4. Plants 5. Wildlife/fish 6. Trails/recreational opportunities 7. Soils 8. Wetlands

What We Know What we do not know 1. Lists of plants/wildlife 1. How the list has changed--how many/where? 2. General Site Area 2. The boundary of the site 3. Watershed Exists 3. What impacts? (Golf, school, runoff) Extent of watershed. 4. Wetland Exists 4. Delineation of wetlands 5. Trails Exist & change frequently 5. Where are they? condition? How do they change? What will the future system look like? 6. Economics critical 6. Budgets/costs of management 7. Committee at one point 7. Still exist? Status? Committment? CNR in charge? 8. Invasives present 8. Where / how many? 9. Deer present 9. Numbers / impacts 10. Bird Species data available 11. Air Quality is same as surrounding area / Raleigh 12. General vegetation map 12. Associated wildlife 13. Shed exists 13. Any value / significance? / ownership 14. Soils Map exists 14. Verified? 15. Lake exists, drainage pattern exists 15. Runoff? stream status? Can we find this? Sedimentation from soil erosion from fishing trails.

STEPS

1. Establish property boundary to determine what is in our scope buffer zone for management 2. Establish who the stakeholders are

Scoping Tasks

Inventory 1. Trails--Chris 2. Past Use--Helene 3. animal--Julie, Meg 4. Contact Info/ people to speak with--Everybody 5. Finance CBA?--Jenny 6. Soils? Gary, Shawn (allocate to next future classes?) 7. Existing Data--(Bird counts, class projects, etc.) Chris, Charlie 8. vegetation species--Charlie 9. Hydrology (Bodies of Water, Sedimentation)--Shawn, Helene 10.Research Sustainable Building Techniques--Ross, Jenny

Management Plan Executive Summary - last A. Intro Name + Location--copy and paste from ES + extra details B. Qualifying Features

Category | Qualifying Features

C. General vision + Goals Build classroom Manage Trails Manage Invasives Manage Plants / wildlife Identify what needs to be learned for future management plans

Sean's Notes 10 September
Helene, Jenny, Charles, Ross, and I met today to try and establish some tasks to start working toward completing our management plans. We were going to go ahead and volunteer on some of these topics to get the ball rolling. Volunteer names are in blue. We looked at the following issues:

1. Off-the-grid - Shawn & Ross What did the proposal committee mean when they suggested an off-the-grid classroom.. If we are to designate the young pine successional stand as the construction site, we may have some serious challenges. The criteria is pretty intense and the site may not be able to support such criteria.

2. University guidelines for a building - Jenny The university has several criteria for a classroom. THis includes classroom specs, wastewater discharge, security, etc. We need to establish what these criteria are to see what additional needs a classroom would have.

3. What are the potential uses of an off-the-grid classroom - ? What would professors like the classroom to include? How frequently would it be used. These are all important characteristics that influence how the structure will affect the surrounding ecosystem.

4. Current construction plans. - Charles - working on contacting University Architect. Currently, there is a location on the Centennial Campus Development and Design Guidleines called the Point. We believe this is where the chancellor's residence was constructed. What we don't know if there is still a plant to add a separate structure. This would clearly change our plan...

5. Site Boundary: - Charles Where is the boundary? Who knows? Where can we get this information?

6. Trails - Chris -What needs to be done?

7. Invasives - Meg? Julie? We need to know about current evasive species management methods. These will be helpful in developing how we will manage our invasives.

8. Better management practices - Amy? What are some criteria for better management practices.