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== = = =**Swift Creek Bluffs Assemblage Management Plan**=

Developing a management plan for the Swift Creek Bluffs Assemblage will be a team effort engaging the following clients: Triangle Land Conservancy, Wake County Open Space, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. These clients own the three parcels that compose the assemblage, so it is with their goals and constraints in mind that we will develop the draft plan.

Target date for completion of the draft document is 2 December 2011. That afternoon a public presentation of the draft plan will made in Room 3214 of Jordan Hall at 1:30 p.m. and all interested parties are invited to attend.

8/22/11 - I pulled public surveys of the three tracts that show easements, riparian buffers, etc. from the Wake County Register of Deeds website: [|BM1990P846 (sanitary sewer easement).pdf] [|BM1997P1499 (utility easement shown).pdf] [|BM2007P1752 (easements etc).pdf] --M. Youth 8/24/11 - Something to consider when you are charged with developing a plan -- there likely will be regulatory restrictions regarding what can be done on the property, but there may also be contractual restrictions. For example, [|BK4621P896 (gift deed, open space restriction).pdf] (luckily in this case, the restriction does not seem likely to be much of a constraint) -- M. Youth

8/26 - I've added a link to the inventory report Dr. Hess' NR300 Forest Measurements class put together in May of 2010 for the Futrell Tract on the "Readings and Resources" page. -M. Lobsinger

8/30 - Have added the final Wake County Turnipseed Preserve Management Plan that was approved by WakeNature in December of last year as an example of what a management plan for WakeNature should look like. It's on the "SCBA Management Plan" page. -M. Lobsinger

8/30 (1426) I posted the handout about Scoping that I mentioned the other day.--G.B.Blank

10/17 - Here is the link to the survey that was created for the homeowners with adjacent land to the Futrell Tract. Still in the editing stages: [] -R. Conrad

11/10 - My conversation with Leigh Ann at Triangle Land Conservancy about how she (TLC) feels about our very specific management recommendations, plus a document that I think she provided to Dr. Blank about the management goals for Swift Creek Bluffs Nature Preserve:

ALSO: Wake County has indeed spoken to Mr. Thompson about purchasing either the entirety of his property, a chunk of it near the bridge, or just a conservation easement (development rights and the right to put in a greenway) in the past, and Mr. Thompson seemed very willing to cooperate. Director Chris Snow thinks that the conversation just needs to be opened again. As for final official Wake County goals for management of Futrell- business as usual until connectivity can be established between the three properties, and then it would be great for some kind of management partnership to be established between Wake County and TLC.