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Photo provided by Mike Dunn Sunset on Pungo Lake Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Emily Scott (President) P.O. Box 222 Columbia, NC 27925 info@pocosinlakesfriends.org 252-946-4728
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Refuge Facts ■ Established: 1990 (Pungo Unit established as Pungo NWR 1963). ■ Acres: 110,106. ■ Located in Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington Co. NC. ■ Location: the refuge is located six miles south of Columbia, NC off Highway 94 on the east and 18 miles south of Plymouth, NC on Highway 45 on the west. Natural History ■ Refuge lands were once the southern extremity of the Great Dismal Swamp. ■ Concentrations of ducks, geese, tundra swans, raptors and black bears. ■ Re-introduction site of red wolf. ■ Open water 6,291 acres; riverine swamp 25,427 acres; pocosin wetlands 50,319; agriculture 1,200; grass fields 25,828; pine hardwood forest 1,486; other 3,123. ■ Organic soils.
Refuge Objectives ■ Cooperative farming. Questions & Answers
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