Big Swash - West
North Carolina, Bertie County

Size
3,191 acres

Price
$2,250,000.00
Offers exceeding the minimum cash price may, in addition to monetary consideration, include the granting of a conservation easement(s) or other interests in real property to TNC. The Nature Conservancy reserves the right to reject any and all offers and will evaluate each based on financial and conservation considerations. TNC will begin to review offers early in September 2009.

Description
The approximately 3,191 acre Big Swash West Property is located along the Roanoke River in Bertie County, NC. The tract contains a diversity of habitats including river levee forests and bald cypress tupelo swamps among others and provides exceptional habitat for migratory waterfowl, deer, wild turkey and songbirds. Property has approximately 5.7 miles of Roanoke River frontage, adjoins other conservation properties and lies in close proximity to NC Wildlife Resources Commission Gamelands managed for wildlife habitat enhancement and public hunting.

Primary Conservation Objective
The Nature Conservancy has worked for more than 25 years to protect the nationally-significant aquatic and terrestrial resources along the Roanoke River. This stretch of the river, from fall-line to Albemarle Sound, supports the largest and least disturbed bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem on the East Coast, and is home for 47 rare plant and animal species and natural communities and supports large populations of migratory fishes such as striped bass, shad and perch.

Biodiversity Highlights
The Roanoke River System is one of the largest alluvial rivers on the eastern slope of North America. It provides habitat for a very large and relatively unfragmented areas of bottomland hardwood and swamp forests and the most diverse and numerous population of diadromous fishes on the Atlantic slope south of the St. Lawrence River. The Big Swash--West tract is situated along the Roanoke River in Bertie County watershed and ontains a diversity of habitats ranging from older aged river levee forests, bald cypress tupelo swamps, and slope forests with beech trees and other native hardwoods. The property provides exceptional habitat for migratory waterfowl and songbirds.

Qualifications and Restrictions
The property is encumbered by an easement with the State of North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund that protects the riparian and wetland areas while allowing for outdoor recreation uses, limited wildlife management activities and development of one dwelling area. The Nature Conservancy retains the right to monitor this easement.

Property frontage along the Roanoke River © C. Peoples TNC

For more information, please contact:

Maggie Porell
4705 University Dr, Suite 290
Durham, North Carolina 27707

Phone: 919-403-8558 x1026
E-mail: mporell@tnc.org