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CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA |
Conservation Trust for North Carolina Electronic Newsletter North Carolina Land Trusts Receive $1 Million to Protect Stream Banks, Wetlands, and Birds The Conservation Trust for North Carolina, on behalf of 7 North Carolina land trusts, recently received a $1 million grant from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grants program to protect stream banks and wetlands that provide critical habitat for migratory birds. NAWCA is a federal program managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Habitat for birds is vanishing at an alarming rate in North Carolina due to poorly managed development. Development along streams and wetlands has degraded water quality as well. Conservation of stream banks is the most cost-effective way to prevent water contamination because intact natural systems greatly limit polluted runoff. The NAWCA grant will enable local land trusts to preserve properties that provide bird habitat by funding expanded outreach to landowners of high priority properties identified in the land trusts’ existing stream bank conservation plans (previously funded by the NC Clean Water Management Trust Fund). Land trusts will target a number of streams in the coastal plain and piedmont for protection, including the Tar River, Town Creek, Marks Creek, Eno River, Mitchell River, Barnes Creek, and the South Fork River. Many of the wetlands along these streams are located on private farms threatened by encroaching urban development. Conserving these lands is important because more than one-third of the state’s wetlands no longer function normally. You can be a part of this effort by making a financial contribution to the Conservation Trust and/or one of the following local land trusts today.
Catawba Lands Conservancy
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