Flint River NEON - United States of America

The Flint River (FLNT) is an aquatic site situated at the headwaters of the Flint River south of Atlanta, GA in the Piedmont Lowlands. FLNT is located on within the Jones Ecological Research Center, a 117 km2 (29,000 acre) reserve privately owned and managed by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The Flint River shapes 20.9 km (13 miles) of the eastern property boundary of the Center. The Flint River is a non-wadeable river flowing 554 km (344 mi.) through Georgia into Lake Seminole at the confluence of the Chattahoochee River. It is part of the ACF basin, ultimately feeding into the Apalachicola River and into the Gulf of Mexico. The sampling site is located at the southern extent of the watershed near the confluence with Ichawaynochaway Creek. The site is encompassed within the NEON Southeast Domain that is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. The surrounding region is a patchwork of forest, grassland, and wetland communities embedded in a matrix that is increasingly dominated by a fast-growing human population. The Domain hosts five other NEON field sites, including two additional aquatic sites and three terrestrial sites, located in Florida and Georgia. It is colocated with the JERC terrestrial field site.