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| Quarterly Electronic Newsletter |
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Office of Conservation and Community Affairs
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Summary of Activities
Since our statewide conference Partnerships in Conservation last April, the One North Carolina Naturally initiative has been promoting regional planning in our eight eco-regions as well as moving forward with the development of an Internet decision support tool with the Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA). We have supported the coordination of various state funding agencies and programs that are associated with conservation on the local, state and federal levels.
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| We are working with nine council of governments across the state on regional planning efforts. A portion of this work is funded by $40,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and we are leveraging at a minimum a 1:1 |
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match of the funds in the regions from NOAA, APNEP and in-kind contributions by the planning entities involved. We hope to finish current planning activities by August 2004. Please see the following Regional Planning Summary of Activities.
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| The CGIA is developing an Internet-based decision support tool that will provide GIS information to planners, local governments, and the public to enable easy access to conservation data such as managed lands, areas of |
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conservation interest, infrastructure data and other information that will enhance their ability to coordinate conservation and development in the state. This project has been coordinated with a Clean Water Management Trust Fund project, and once online will be housed at the Carolina Environmental Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. We anticipate the initial version of this tool will be available to the public in the fall of 2004.
Coordination is a key element to a successful conservation plan for North Carolina. One tool we are promoting is the use of our draft conservation map identifying managed conservation lands, farmland, forestland, and future focus areas for conservation. While this map is draft and will be refined to include our regional planning efforts, we are promoting it to all the conservation funds as a resource to include when deciding on project funding. With the state's conservation funds using the One North Carolina Naturally map, more effective conservation is achieved and more efficient use of conservation funds is realized.
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