Excerpt from South Mountain State Park Master Plan: Burker County, Nc, November 2007 The park's primary interpretive theme is the ecology of its out standing resource waters. Secondary interpretive themes include plant communities, stream recreation, local cultural history, rare and endangered species, conservation ethic, park system history, reptiles, camping and back country safety, horseback riding, chang ing land-use patterns, and geology. A thorough site inventory and analysis was performed as a component of this planning process. Through this process, the project consultant and other stakehold ers in the park gained a better understanding of the opportunities and constraints within the park and how these might influence site planning and development of new and improved facilities that will support the current interpretive themes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.