... speciesIntroduction of exotic plants and Competition with and predation Feral hogs, dogs, fire ants, kudzu Direct control of non-nativesanimals not native to SRS on natives, and destruction of where ... op-erations, such as the discharge of thermal effluent to streams (Halversonet al. 1997) and construction of facilities (Mayer and Wike 1997), causedcontamination and habitat loss. The planting of ... restoration of the SRS occurred regularly during the first several decades of the Site’s op-eration. These include planting and seeding of longleaf pine, initiation of prescribed burning, draining of...