NCFA Board Approves Support of Natural Heritage Program. In light of the recent budget cuts to the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, the NCFA. This program is voluntary for landowners. It is not regulatory, only seeking to serve landowners and the public. The information collected and provided by the program gives forest landowners the information they need to protect and to enhance the natural areas on their properties and provides valuable information to forest managers and consulting foresters that help inform their management recommendations.
Additionally, forest certification programs require forest landowners to identify unique natural areas and to manage them in a way that takes in to account their special qualities. Identification and management of unique natural heritage areas is a condition of certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard, the Forest Stewardship Council Standard, and the American Tree Farm Standard.
The Natural Heritage Program provides information which fulfills these requirements. It also provides landowners with information who are developing Forest Stewardship Plans that will receive cost share funding.
The North Carolina Forestry Association supports the work of the Natural Heritage Program and recognizes the program. This information is invaluable to forest landowners and forest managers as they consider their stewardship decisions.
- Deep cuts savage state’s natural heritage program. Written by Jack Igelman on November 30, 2015 in Environment, Politics, Region, State Budget Impact, Top News Comments Off on Deep cuts savage state’s natural heritage program.
- North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Biennial Reports. As directed by the North Carolina Nature Preserves Act (GS 113A-164.1-.11), the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program (NCNHP) in the Department of Environment and.
- For each guild the location of known sites and specimen records were mapped. Where the vegetation map units parallel the known habitat requirements for the guild members, a binary map of suitable vegetation classes was created.
- GUIDE TO THE NATURAL COMMUNITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA FOURTH APPROXIMATION March 2012 Michael P. Schafale North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Endemic and Near-Endemic Plants; Natural Communities of North Carolina; North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources Land and Water Stewardship. Natural Heritage Program. The Office of Land and Water Stewardship operates under the authority provided by several programs.
Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program MA Division of Fisheries & Wildlife 1 Rabbit Hill Road Westborough, MA 01581. Phone: (508) 389-6360 Fax: (508) 389-7890.