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Wildlife Commission Seeks Public Comments on 2015 Wildlife Action Plan Addendum
Plants will be added to Species of Greatest Conservation Need
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 20, 2022) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is seeking
public comments through May 20 on a major revision to the 2015 Wildlife Action Plan that will
add plants to the list of North Carolina’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SCCN). The
addendum documents and comment portal are available online.
Addendum 2 to the Plan will add plant SGCN as a component of the state’s natural communities,
add a new natural community description for Piedmont and Coastal Plain Oak Forests, and
provide habitat associations between plant SGCN and the natural communities described in the
Plan.
The addendum is in preparation for the anticipated passage of the Recovering America’s
Wildlife Act (RAWA), proposed federal legislation with wide bi-partisan support, which will
include provisions for plant conservation. As currently proposed, RAWA will provide a new
source of federal matching grant funds to states that include plants as SGCN in their Wildlife
Action Plans. The Wildlife Commission will join 15 other state wildlife agencies that already
include plants in their Wildlife Action Plans.
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