North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 07 - Natural and Cultural Resources
Chapter 13 - PARKS AND RECREATION AREA RULES
Subchapter I - NATURAL AREAS
Section .0200 - SELECTION CRITERIA
Section 13I .0201 - NATURAL FEATURES
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
Natural features are of primary importance and shall receive first consideration in establishing natural areas within the state parks and recreation system. These features include, but are not limited to:
(1) formations or features of the natural landscape significantly illustrating geological processes;
(2) significant fossil evidence of the development of life on earth;
(3) exemplary or representative ecological communities (terrestrial and aquatic) maintained under prevailing natural conditions;
(4) ecological communities significantly illustrating the processes of natural succession, including examples of communities maintained or perpetuated by fire;
(5) habitats supporting rare or restricted species of plants or animals;
(6) flora or fauna persisting from an earlier period;
(7) unique or unusual natural features;
(8) seasonal havens for concentrations of native animals, such as a bat colony or coastal bird rookery;
(9) features of high natural and aesthetic quality illustrating the scenic grandeur of North Carolina.
Authority
G.S.
113-3;
113-8;
143B-10;
143B-135.16;
Eff. August
15, 1981;
Transferred from
15A NCAC
12I .0201 Eff. April 1, 2017;
Pursuant
to G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive
public interest Eff. May 1, 2018.
