Pocosin Swamps and Carolina Bays

Whether its for the protection of Pocosin Swamps, other natural areas, social activism, or religion, it is beneficial to know how to create a non-profit in your state. This specific example is for creating a non-profit in North Carolina. How to establish a non-profit 501c(3) organization in North Carolina   Step/Task Expertise needed Timeline 1.       Select the initial directors of your non-profit. Although only one board member who is 18 years or older is required in NC, (16 years or older for some youth organizations), it is highly recommended that at least five individuals sit on an organization's board to maximize expertise and to look professional. Knowledge of the hiring process and skills needed for board members to be successful in your organization ASAP 2.       Mission and purpose statement. It is recommended that as soon as board me...

 Dendrology of Pocosin Swamps

 eBird      eBird states that its goal is “to gather this information in the form of checklists of birds, archive it, and freely share it to power new data-driven approaches to science, conservation and education (eBird, 2024)”.  They also make tools to benefit birders, such as “being able to manage lists, photos and audio recordings, to seeing real-time maps of species distribution, to alerts that let you know when species have been seen, we strive to provide the most current and useful information to the birding community (eBird, 2024).” I have used this resource for well over a decade and find it incredibly useful for not only species identification but for its capacity for research and trip logs. It is very useful for finding different specific species or locations with a high diversity of species through species search, target species, bar charts, and hotspots. This tool also has an entire tab dedicated to science that mostly looks at population trends and ...

Invasive Plants and Animals in Pocosin Swamps of North Carolina link:

  Climate mapping and weather are incredibly important when studying the habitat of a region. The selected  l inks show a variety of information that can prove useful to studying Pocosin swamps such as daily temperatures, long-term averages, average precipitation by type, and record temperatures. The NOAA resource on climate normals 2020 show a 30 year average across the United States from 1991-2020. The NOAA National Web Service shows specific averages for cities with day by day information as well. The North Carolina State University weather map displays current temperatures across the entirety of North Carolina. The U.S. Climate Data resource once again shows averages for temperatures but also average precipitation and when record temperatures occurred. Finally, the WeatherSTEM resource shows climate classifications across the state as well as a variety of other information such as geography and long-term trends. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). (2020). ...

       The USDA's Web Soil survey is a fantastic tool for discovering the properties of a soil in a specified area of interest (AOI). This tool can give you wonderful and in-depth information on a wide variety of a soil features such as its setting (topography and parent material), typical profile (composition of each layer), properties and qualities (hydrology, slope, and depth), interpretative groups (land use classification), and minor components. The Web Soil survey is very user friendly, however, the initial navigation of the website can be a little tricky when first learning and the Map Unit Descriptions use a large amount of Soil Sciences jargon. I am personally familiar with this tool and the terminology used from both my education and career, but, for a new user there a plenty of things to learn. Terminology such as the letters for each layer of a soil profile and their meaning, KSAT, land capability classifications, and hydric soil ratings are not common-se...