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Beginning in 2001, CURE work focused on private lands in three cooperatives located in the northern Coastal Plain (Benthall - Halifax and Northampton counties), southern Coastal Plain (Rowland - Robeson County), and the western Piedmont (Turnersburg - Iredell County) (See Figure 1 below for CURE Private Cooperatives map). These early programs were designed to test land management concepts on private lands to inform future efforts.
The three private focal areas were chosen based upon a combination of habitat characteristics and real world administrative and logistic concerns. Habitat enhancements were implemented on each area depending on each area’s unique opportunities. Examples of common practices used were thinning and prescribed burning of forests, the establishment of field borders on crop fields, control of hardwood encroachment, and the conversion of fescue to native grass on pasture and hay lands.
Additionally, NCWRC designated portions of four state-owned game lands totaling 21,456 acres as CURE areas: Caswell, Sandhills, South Mountains, and Suggs Mill Pond (See Figure 2 below for CURE Game Land Cooperatives map). These game lands were in mostly forested environments. Suitable management and appropriate target species differed from one game land to the next. However, all shared a focus on early successional habitat management through practices such as thinning of timber, use of prescribed fire, roller chopping, and other techniques.
Biologists monitored quail and songbird population responses on both private and Game Lands areas.
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Introduction - Declining Habitat, Declining Wildlife
Past Wildlife Commission Efforts
CURE - The Early Years
Transition from Original CURE
Today's CURE
Enhancing Traditional Quail Management to Benefit Songbirds
Conservation Reserve Program – CRP
Environmental Quality Incentives Program – EQIP
Wetlands Reserve Program – WRP
CURE Farm Map
North Carolina’s Best Early-successional Habitat
Using Fire to Improve Wildlife Habitat
Longleaf Pine Restoration
Private Lands brochure
Tarheel Wildlife: A Guide for Managing Wildlife on Private Lands In North Carolina
For more information about the future of CURE, please check for updates on this site or contact the Wildlife Management Division at 919-707-0050.