Meeting+2009+June+4

Thursday 2009 June 4 8:30-10 1214 Jordan Hall, NCSU Campus
 * Wake County Nature Preserves Meeting**


 * Attendance Notes**:

Charlynne Smith Tim Lisk Chris Snow Sabrina Thomas Jackie Trickel Kaytee Holcombe Toddi Steelman Lindsey Cleveland Stephen Bentley Louise Alexander Leigh Ann Cienek


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Brief of Field Trip/Capacity Building Workshop:

- 16 total people attended - confluence of a lot of things happening; council that was sympathetic to idea, data collected from constituents and combined able to push forward. - County commissioners very involved - strong citizen support - balance of mix-use parks and balance - county owned park and managed my other municipalities - did not re-program parks that already existed as nature preserves - different type of organization within the department - excellent database and collected from multiple counties and connected to spatial component - several properties that are land banked and minimum management - successful bond packages - dedicated properties that char-meck still owned have state conservation easement; through natural heritage program - "state conservation easement" - classification process used internally - didn't have state parks and already protected areas "Take Home Lessons"

- importance of data collection - need balance between passive and active recreation - strong partnerships - in-house capacities - classifications - document demand through survey data - documenting ecosystem benefits and relation to passive and active recreation - nature preserve as investment and relation to property value

Issues: - staffing support - funding - stewardship

- Might need another strategic planning meeting

Update on database: Jackie

- in search of grants that will fund

Recipe Book/Service Learning Opportunities-- update from Colleen, Jackie and Gary on how to make progress on the recipe book.

- do we have generic management prescriptions to help with capacity building workshop? - Turnipseed Management plan way to contribute to generic recipe book - Need to make more explicit to foster learning experience

Need to form sub-committee: - Jackie will send out email to set up meeting to discuss more - use survey to send to other municipalities - will meet in July and report back in mid-August for Gary's class

from gary: "John Connors and I met Friday about the Turnipseed Road #1 management plan prescriptions; discussed format, structure and content matters; and left the ball in John's court to continue with the material he has been drafting. I will help with the organization as he proceeds.

I am still uncertain how this plan development fits overlaps, connects with the recipe prescription book, which I consider more generic and am still intending to have some of my fall NR595 students work on (if still needed and appropriate)."

Diagram what criteria look like before meeting. Debrief from Mecklenburg meeting and how it affects the way we think about our preserve criteria.

Hess: Opportunity to be a centerpiece panel for an engaged learning conference at NCSU in Oct 2010 (yes, 2010). We would have 30-45 minutes to talk about what we do from the perspective of faculty, students, and community partners. Are we interested?

- go forward

Michael Kirschman, Director of the Mecklenburg Nature Preserve System, indicated that he would come up for a day to give a presentation on the value of nature preserves.

Goals and Objectives: - building support for this concept - political support

Possible meeting places: - meeting of managers - political consolidation

Possible date to come up for next workshop and presentation:

Sub-Committee: Organize visit and presentation for September/Fall Toddi George Chris Jamie Kaytee

- Meet in next couple weeks and report back in July

from jamie Michael Kirschman is Director of the Division of Stewardship Services for Mecklenburg County. Take a look at these links:[] Scan down to the second speaker on this link: [] See this article all the way to the end, where it discusses the greenprinting/ranking effort I told you about on the phone:[] See second blog entry, dated March 3 here, that shows what a compelling message he has:[]

from gary: "Finally, when is Michael Kirschman likely to be here? If appropriate to ask, having him as a guest in my Protected Species Conservation class (NR595 003 MWF 1225-1:15) could be beneficial."