A Study of State Uses of Smith Island (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Study of State Uses of Smith Island<br/><br/>Smith Island is the collective name of some acres of barrier beach, sand dunes, marine forest, marshes, estuaries, and bays in Brunswick County, beginning below Federal Point and-terminating in Cape Fear itself. Three major islands comprise the bulk of the solid or high ground in the complex and total less than acres. The largest and southernmost of these is called Bald Head Island. Smith Island forms the eastern side of the mouth of the Cape Fear River and is the southernmost point in the State. The Island has considerable interest because of both its natural and social history. For the naturalist, Smith Island is a large, relatively undisturbed marine coastal environment of great diversity, providing sites ranging from open ocean beach and dunes to live oak, dogwood, and palmetto forest, to marsh and estuary with many gradations of moisture and salinity. These habitats serve many species of fin and shellfish, shorebirds, and a modest number of other types of birds and animals, including certain unusual species, such as the loggerhead turtle.

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