6.3 Conservation Opportunities and Incentives
participants enrolled, and to provide initial and ongoing management guidance. Work with key landowners and groups who are infuential in their communities and are likely to infuence participation by other landowners.
• Develop and ofer incentives for corporate landowners to efect positive on-the-ground changes on the considerable corporate landholdings in the state.
• Coordinate with partner agencies that work with private landowners to increase aware- ness and interest in programs that beneft species and habitats on private lands.
Land Management
• Identify resources and take action when appropriate to implement programs that con- trol, suppress, or eradicate invasive species threats.
• Facilitate conservation of large, contiguous tracts of land under multiple ownerships as a means to conserve wildlife and habitat on a landscape scale. • Continue to coordinate placement of dredge materials to beneft beach-nesting birds, foraging shorebirds, and sea turtles. • Increase the number and availability of private contractors available to conduct pre- scribed burns on private and corporate lands. • Highlight and support opportunities for ongoing land management and restoration eforts on protected lands through coordination, protection, management assistance programs, and stewardship funding.
• Provide information and implementation guidance about land management practices that efectively maintain suitable habitat for species.
• Assist in the planning, development, and management of greenways .
• Promote the use of native plants in landscaping, publicizing native plant nurseries and partnering with UNC Botanical Garden and North Carolina Exotic Pest Plant Council.
Development
• Expand technical guidance to promote site design techniques that minimize impacts and maximize benefts to wildlife and habitat (e.g., development, roads, utilities).
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