CapacityBuildingCommittee


 * Capacity-building Committee**


 * Members:** Gary Blank (chairman), John Connors, Meghan Lobsinger, Anna Miller

GOAL: ** Bring resource managers together ** to carry out appropriate stewardship of the highest quality natural areas in Wake County.

2013 Goals
 * Develop a stewardship assets and need inventory county-wide, to position ourselves for how to recruit a volunteer network, develop a multi-jurisdictional resource-sharing position, and otherwise **bring resource managers together** (Blank). This need was pointed out by Hammerbacher, so that we can better position ourselves to make a funding pitch to get things started.
 * Regular workshops as a way to **bring resource managers together**to focus on particular needs and assets
 * Spring workshop on management planning (March)
 * Fall workshop (Sept) on what topic?
 * increased communication among natural areas managers in County
 * target continuing education units


 * Workdays
 * Said we were going to get a volunteer days program coordinated with Raleigh for their nature preserves - maybe Service Raleigh 23 March (Miller)
 * Potential workday at Mitchell Mill State Natural Area - Fall?

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Consonant with our goals to ...
 * develop the organizational capacity to conduct natural resource inventories on and develop management plans for Preserves;
 * develop an organized, volunteer base of citizen-scientists to monitor Preserves.

This committee will develop a list of people willing to devote time to developing nature preserves, including how they are willing to help.


 * Members**

Meghan Lobsinger (Wake County, Chairwoman), Colleen Bockhahn (Wake County), Benson Kirkman, Ross Sullivan (Wake County), Gary Blank (NC State)


 * Current Projects**

Swift Creek Bluffs Assemblage WakeNature Preserve
 * Dr. Blank's FOR784 class has taken on the writing of a management plan for the three properties as a potential WakeNature Preserve
 * First site visit by the class was made on Friday, 26 August 2011