SLSP6: Boundary Issues #12 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.

Sometimes when we are geocaching we cross the invisible lines that artifically define and divide our world. This is the twelfth of a series of Geocaches dedicated to these kinds of Boundaries.

Located in the park and designated as a natural area by the Society of American Foresters in the early 1960s, the Turkey Oak Natural Area will remain in its natural state to be used for scientific and educational study. This 133-acre area, named for its predominant tree, consists of both a coarse sand ridge at the southeastern end of the lake and a portion of the bay bog. All of the primary plant community types around the Carolina bays are represented. The rare white wicky, a relative of mountain laurel, grows in the area, as well as a variety of carnivorous plants.

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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".