SLSP4: More Bay Forest Traditional Cache

This cache is available at all times that the park is open, but they do not want cachers cutting through the Group Site if it is booked. Therefore Park Management requests that you check with them to see if the Group Site is booked. Either call before (910-669-2928), or visit the office before you set out to get this cache. If the site IS booked, please use the alternative access waypoint.

Usually, vegetation is established almost completely around margins of bay lakes. Trees and shrubs along lake perimeters reduce wave and current action, permitting sediments to accumulate and encouraging new plant growth. Peat is produced gradually from dead organic matter along the shoreline, and eventually trees take root. Slowly, the bay forest grows into the lake. This process slowly reduces the size of the lake. Today Singletary Lake is only 44 percent of its original size.

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Singletary Lake was named for Richard Singletary, who received a grant of land in Bladen County in 1729. Since colonial times, the region surrounding Singletary Lake was settled and used for subsistence farming along its river lowlands and creek bottoms. Longleaf pines—primarily used for turpentine pitch and timber—were then prolific in the area. They were logged and used used for the production of naval stores.

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Permission was granted in person by the Superintendent of the State Park, Kristen Woodruff. She required a Special Use Permit. Permit is under "Robert Maile, North Carolina Geocachers Organisation, #45-7".