Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune

Wildlife clearing in area GG before hurricanes Bertha and Fran.

  Habitat        Enhancements

Sunflower plot planted primarily for birds such as mourning doves.

Deer image.

  Deer

Bear image.

 Bear

Turkey image.

 Turkey

Rabbit image.

 Small Game

Quail image.

Quail

Dove image.

  Dove Duck image.  Waterfowl

Fish image.

 Fish Management

Raccoon image.

 Nuisance Wildlife

Disabled sportsman image.

 Disabled Sportsmen

Tree image.

 Habitat Management

Frog image.

Non-Game Management

Eagle, globe and anchor image.

  Map Phone image.  Contacts
 

Prescribed Fire 

    Consistent with sound ecosystem management principles, prescribed fire is one of the most important native habitat management tools for the game manager.  Through a pre-determined burn rotation, fire is introduced to the landscape at various intervals from annual burns within impact and surface danger zones, 2 year rotation on habitats managed for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, to 2-5 year rotations within mixed-pine hardwood.  Each combination of burn rotation provides various responses by native vegetation.  The end result is a flourishing understory of herbaceous and low growing shrubs which provide the basic life requisites of food, cover, and nesting habitat for the vast majority of Camp Lejeune’s game and non-game species.

Prescribed burn.Pine stand immediately after burn.Regeneration of diverse, high quality vegetation after a controlled burn.

 Forest Openings   

    Forest openings aboard Camp Lejeune can be divided into two categories: mission support and conservation.  Mission support openings include:  powerline and steam rights-of-way, gun positions, tactical and administrative landing zones, forest access roads, logging decks, and other non-forested areas which provide breaks in continuous woodland.  Management of these areas vary, but are influenced by their relationship to infrastructure, military training, and forest/wildlife management programming.  The class of other non-forested areas comprising the greatest acreage aboard the Base include road shoulders and impact areas.  

Mixed grass and clover plot planted for multiple wildlife use.

   Conservation openings are primarily managed wildlife clearings, although many mission support openings function as both.  Wildlife species benefiting from these forest openings, particularly intensively managed wildlife clearings, include:  bobwhite quail, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, mourning doves, rabbits, and various migratory landbirds.  This is especially true for white-tailed deer in poor-quality habitat areas of the Southeastern Coastal Plain of North Carolina.

Planting a wildlife clearing.Turkeys using wildlife clearing.  

 

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Environmental Management Division

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Installations & Environment Department

Last Updated:  September 26, 2002