North Carolina Conservation Planning

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North CarolinaConservation Planning
Linda Pearsall, Director Natural Resource
Planning Conservation NC Dept. of Environment
Natural Resources
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Current approaches

• Div. Water Quality
• Basinwide water quality plans, focus on water
  quality protection impaired streams
• Div. Water Resources
• Water supply plans, drought management
• Ecosystem Enhancement Program Local Watershed
  Plans
• Local watershed plans identify restoration
  protection opportunities
• Wildlife Resources Commission
• Trout waters, habitat protection, stream
  restoration

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Current approaches

• Riparian Corridor Plans
• Land trusts, CWMTF
• County Multi-county plans
• Wake Co., Chatham Co., Yadkin-Pee Dee Lakes,
  Triangle Green Print, Falls Lake
• Multi-agency partnerships
• Sandhills, Onslow Bight, Uwharries, Cape Fear,
  Albemarle
• Plans for Specific Rivers
• Eno, Roanoke, French Broad, Little Tennessee,
  New, Lumber, Mayo, Haw, Deep

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One North Carolina Naturally

• Working Lands
• Working farms, working forests
• Forever Naturally
• Biodiversity conservation
• Recreation lands, trails greenways
• Working on the Water
• Marine, estuarine
• Coastal Habitat Protection Plan
• Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program

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One NC Naturally works to

• Coordinate conservation efforts among state
  agencies
• Foster conservation partnerships
• Identify conservation priorities
• Inform funding decisions

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One NC NaturallyStatewide Conservation Plan

• Identify a viable network to support NCs natural
  diversity
• Statewide analysis
• Iterative
• Incorporate diversity of data
• Address multiple ecosystem factors
• Guide NC conservation for next 25 years

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Planning at Multiple Scales
for Multiple Purposes.
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Timeline

• June
• Map (first iteration)
• Focus on biodiversity and water quality
  priorities
• Farmland protection
• December
• Revised map
• Additional improved data sets
• Restoration component
• WRC threat analysis

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Project Contacts

• Linda Pearsall
• Director, Office of Planning Conservation
• NCDENR, Natural Heritage Program
• 919-715-4195 linda.pearsall_at_ncmail.net
• Kim Douglass
• Conservation Planner
• NCDENR, Natural Heritage Program
• 919-715-2946 kim.douglass_at_ncmail.net