Project Description
In 2014, The Nature Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter was awarded $27,000 to conduct private landowner outreach within the Cape Fear Arch. The Cape Fear Arch is part of a larger landscape identified mutually by a number of agencies and NGOs as a significant landscape for longleaf conservation and restoration. By focusing on priority conservation areas, this project created a clear scientific link between ecologically significant features and landowner outreach, while building upon a 2013 SFI grant to American Forest Foundation which developed new methods for engaging landowners.
This project provided expert support for landowners in forest management and longleaf restoration through forest certification under the American Tree Farm System or SFI, drafting forest management plans, and developing working forest conservation easements. The project addressed a number of elements within the SFI Standard, including broadening the practice of sustainable forestry, managing lands that are ecologically, geographically, or culturally important in a manner that takes into account their unique qualities, and conservation of biological diversity.
Project Partners
For this grant the Nature Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter partnered National Wild Turkey Federation and Resource Management Service, LLC.
About The Nature Conservancy, North Carolina
The Nature Conservancy protects nature, for people today and future generations -- they conserve the lands and the waters on which all life depends. They pursue non-confrontational, pragmatic, market-based solutions to conservation challenges. This makes it essential for them to work collaboratively with partners: with communities, companies, government agencies, multilateral institutions, individuals and other non-profit organizations around the globe.
Project Resources
In the News
- News Article: New Forest Research Project Works to Conserve Caribou in Western Alberta
September 11, 2018 - News Article: Calling All Birders - A New Study is Seeking Participants in the Southeast U.S. This Summer
June 13, 2018 - News Article: Go Inside the Carbon Vault - Why It's Critical to Know What's Beneath the Boreal Forest
June 5, 2018 - Press Release: SFI Conservation Grants Feature Collaboration From 45 Different Groups Across the U.S. and Canada
March 6, 2018 - News Article: Georgia Forestry Foundation Takes on Statewide Literacy
March 5, 2018 - Press Release: SFI Community Grants Feature Collaboration from 102 Different Groups Spanning the U.S. and Canada
March 1, 2018 - News Article: Training and Jobs Add Fire Power
February 22, 2018 - News Coverage: National Wild Turkey Federation Opens New Train System
January 8, 2018 - News Article: There's Something Fishy Going on in the Fraser Basin
December 21, 2017 - News Article: Study Shows Sustainable Forestry Sustains These 5 Birds
December 15, 2017 - News Article: Giving Thanks for Four Decads of Protecting Turkeys
November 21, 2017 - Press Release: SFI Opens Request For Proposals: Seeks New Partners for Conservation and Community Projects in the U.S. and Canada
August 8, 2017 - News Article: Teaching Youth About Sustainable Forestry
June 11, 2017 - Blog: Listening to the Forest
May 19, 2017 - Press Release: SFI Community Grants Feature Collaboration from 50 Different Groups Spanning North America
April 6, 2017 - Press Release: SFI Conservation Grants Feature Collaboration from 37 Different Groups Spanning North America
February 27, 2017 - Click here for more archived news