Chapter 3 North Carolina’s Species
3.13.8.5 Conservation Programs and Partnerships Conservation programs, incentives, and partnerships should be used to the fullest extent to preserve high-quality resources and protect important natural communities. Protective measures that use existing regulatory frameworks to protect habitats and species should be incorporated where applicable. Land conservation or preservation can serve numerous purposes in the face of anticipated climate change, but above all, it promotes ecosystem resilience. Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats • Promote use of native species. Consider propagation of rare or declining species for use in restoration or augmentation projects.
• Provide incentives to private landowners to conserve imperiled plants and habitats on lands they own.
• Continue to build and expand the North Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance network.
• Acquire acreage of rare or significant natural community types through purchase, conservation easement, or other perpetual management agreements.
Spruce-Fir habitats Bogs and other wetlands Carolina Bays
Prairie grasslands Coastal marshes
Plot Balsams Black/Craggy Mountains
• Protect corridors that serve as landscape connections to other conservation sites.
Floodplains
• Work with the USFWS to develop Candidate Conservation Agreements (CCAs) for lands where propagated listed plants can be planted as restoration.
• Work with private landowners owning significant botanical sites, provide technical support and assist with management to sustain rare communities and plants.
References are at the end of the document.
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