TurnipseedAssessment


 * This page is for storing and linking to information about the Marks Creek Assessment**

As a pilot project, WakeNature is working toward developing an inventory and management plan for a portion of Wake County's open space along Marks Creek. Below are some available data.

Draft Turnipseed Management Plan 2010 March 5 - [|TurnipseedManagementPlan.2010.03.05.pdf] Review comments of this plan for its improvement:

Compiled checklists of Turnipseed's fauna and flora, including plants, lichens, arthropods (spiders, centipedes, crayfish and insects), molluscs (clams and snails), fish, herps (amphibians and reptiles), birds and mammals, as of 15 June 2010:



Data from Gary Perlmutter: lichen checklist and collection data from a survey of the Turnipseed conservation area, begun June 2009. So far 11 forest sites and 16 rock sites have been sampled; collected specimens are currently being identified. This spreadsheet is periodically updated as the inventory project progresses. Number of potential species: 170; number determined species: 162; potential new county records 55. Updated: 7 May 2011.

[|photo album]

This work was presented at the NCSU Forestry Seminar Series on 8 March 2010 (be patient in opening; it's a large file with lots of images).

An article about this survey was published by the Triangle Land Conservancy, a WakeNature partner, in 2009: [|Turnipseed Lichen Survey]

Gary Perlmutter presented a poster about his survey at two meetings in 2011: a bryological and lichenological meeting in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences during it's Wild Life Ecology and Evolution presentation event//.// //[|TurnipseedLichenPoster.pdf]//

Data from Heather Cheshire: GPS data collected at Marks Creek by volunteers in May and November 2008. If you want to know what data are included, just download the 'readme' file. This document has a (very) brief description of the data. If you want to see what attributes are included, download the zipped 'spreadsheets'. This folder has excel spreadsheets created from the dbfs. If you want shapefiles, the readme file and spreadsheets, download the Workday_GPS_data zip file. Spatial data are ArcMap shapefiles -


 * GIS Data for Potential Natural Areas in Wake County** 2008 July 31

This zipped file contains data compiled by Cheshire's GIS class during the Spring 2008 semester. There is a Readme.doc in the zipped files that describes the included datasets. Files are ArcGIS and MS Excel. [|WakeCountyNHPandOpenSpace.zip]

Data from John Connors (summary) July 16, 2008:



Data from 2008 May 1 service-learning workshop

Folder / zip file: GPS_Data_May01

These are data sets collected in the field by participants in the Service #|Learning Workshop, May 1, 2008. Field data were logged using Trimble GeoXTs and were differentially corrected in real-time (WAAS) or by post-processing. Data were slightly edited (to reduce "bow-ties" or obvious outliers); separated by theme (outcrops, trail, vegetation and unique features; and exported to ESRI shapefiles. All data are projected in State Plane, NAD83, feet.



Locations of coverboards:

Harry LeGrand field visit 4/26/08:

Jeff Beane/John Connors field trip 4/22/08:

Sinclair et. al. field trip 2/28/08

Waypoint shapefiles referenced in Sinclair's notes:

Triangle Land Conservancy's [|Marks Creek Assessment] document

Maps of Mark's Creek and the TESC property (the pilot site).



Picasa webalbum URLs:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mramsey3884/CNRTurnipseed?authkey=LKe59eL7M6Y&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/mramsey3884/CityMarksCreekAndBarwell?authkey=pA-lHMnfRYA&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/mramsey3884/MarkSCreekOpenHouseFebruary2008?authkey=gRCCVrEcSKc&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/mramsey3884/CountyMarksCreek?authkey=B0vvH5fORlc&feat=directlink

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Power Point for OSAPAC meeting 9.28.09: