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Cedar Island
National Wildlife Refuge
Mailing Address:
Cedar Island NWR c/o Mattamuskeet NWR
Route 1, Box N-2
Swan Quarter, NC 27885
Phone:
(919)225-2511
Fax:
(919)926-1743
Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge,
located in Carteret County, North Carolina is on the end of
a peninsula marking the southern end of Pamlico Sound. The
refuge lies five miles northeast of the Atlantic ocean and
about 40 miles northeast of Beaufort, North Carolina. The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service purchased the first portion
of the island (7,830 acres) in 1964. Additional acres were
acquired through 1967. In 1970, an abandoned U.S. Navy radar
station was obtained and converted into the refuge field
office. A 1,955 acre tract was donated to the refuge in
1990. Today the 14,480 acre refuge consists of approximately
11,000 acres of irregularly-flooded, brackish marsh and
3,480 acres of pocosin and woodland habitat. The dominant
marsh plants include black n eedlerush, saltmarsh cordgrass,
saltmeadow hay, and saltgrass. The woodland areas are
dominated by loblolly pine, longleaf and pond pine. Live oak
is also abundant on some upland sites. The marsh and
surrounding waters provide wintering habitat for thousands
of ducks and nesting habitat for colonial waterbirds.
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