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YLASI Property

Property Description
YLASI

The YLASI tract has an exceptional variety of wildlife habitats, some managed and some left in a more natural state. This property is located within an area of the Pee Dee near the Fall Line and provides a diverse assemblage of habitats from both the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions. The variety of habitats for wildlife including fields, forested wetlands, moist hardwood slopes, duck ponds, and regularly burned open pine woods have the potential to support many rare and high priority state and federal species. Bottomland hardwoods and swamps are classic examples of the Great Pee Dee floodplain, the protection of which benefits wildlife habitat and water quality within an important river system to the Pee Dee Region and state. The ecological functions provided by the site’s wetlands will likewise be preserved which include floodwater mitigation,
groundwater recharge, pollutant filtration, and suspended sediment trapping. Traditional land uses, farming, hunting, and silviculture, will also be sustained.

 

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