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//**WakeNature Preserves Partnership Meeting**//
Thursday 8:30-10 Historic Yates Mill County Park, Lake Wheeler Road (visit park website for directions)

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 * Attendance Notes**

Hess (Notes), Pohlman, Fowler, Lobsinger, Trickel, Connors (presiding), Shouse, Hammerbacher, K. Smith

// **Steering** // ** Committee ** (Scott Pohlman, chairman) GOAL: ** Increase momentum ** by growing active signatory membership.


 * Need meeting site for next 3 meetings
 * Wiki expires next week ($50/year) - TLC has been carrying this for year (Thank you!)

NOTES
 * Smith will check museum; Alternate is Wetland Center
 * Hammerbacher will check with TLC on the wiki payment - otherwise, members approved spending WNP funds

//**Promotion Committee**// (Kaytee Smith, chairwoman) GOAL: ** Tell the story ** of the highest quality natural areas in Wake County and the stewardship they have and need.


 * Roberston Millpond Preserve opening - starts 10A on Sat 24 October**
 * What are the full hours?
 * What will we have on a table?
 * What are our talking points?
 * Wilkerson next week is a demonstration of what we can do
 * Who might be there that we want to make sure to speak to?
 * What WakeNature people are coming?


 * NOTES**
 * Sat 24 October - talking starts at 10AM - about 30min of speaking
 * Wake County has been in touch with Connors and will present sign and designation of Robertson as third WakeNature Preserve
 * Will also get a historic designation
 * 20-30min canoe tours - depends on number of people - expect 3 sessions - Frog Hollow canoes will bring 7 canoes holding 2-3 people per boat - RSVPs for canoe tour due 12 October
 * Will have some tables with historic information about the mill; another table with snakes; table for WakeNature (Hess, Connors, someone from TLC (tentative) will staff table)
 * Will bring some live animals - live and models - Water moccasin, northern water snake - Smith & Trickel will bring live and model animals
 * Rain plan - there's a shelter and will be tents if it looks like rain
 * Fowler will contact us on 13 October if we need to recruit more people for the event


 * WakeWonders**
 * Look at website - @http://go.ncsu.edu/WakeWonders - what should we add?
 * Start pursuing Umstead for next year (Connors will find out what their 100 anniversary plans are, and what we would feature) - do we need to get Umstead in this year because of the anniversary?
 * LeighAnn - will bring WakeNature trifolds
 * Also need WakeWonders postcard-size flyer - anybody up to design and print? ask Deborah if we can use image from top of WakeWonder site


 * NOTES**
 * Hammerbacher will work with TLC PR person to design postcards and will pay for them (thank you TLC) - about 100 will be printed
 * Hammerbacher will also bring trifolds
 * Umstead still being pursued and will be added as an 8th if they have something special for their 100th anniversary
 * Smith will work on getting a date from Prairie Ridge 02.13 for International Migratory Bird Banding Day
 * Hess will ask Snow if he'd follow up with Mark Johns on a salamander-related event in March for Hemlock Bluffs
 * Hammerbacher will be talking to REI about the Find Your Preserve program in the Cary store - could mention WakeWonders - talk is 10.06

//**I**////**nventory Committee**// (Scott Pohlman, chairman) GOAL: ** Places on the ground ** - designate publicly accessible WakeNature Preserves.


 * Robertson Millpond Preserve designation (Pohlman)**
 * Report on ad-hoc committee findings
 * Vote


 * NOTES**
 * Ad hoc committee was Jeff Hall (WRC), John Blanchard (State Parks), Harry Legrand (NHP) reviewed management plan and application and recommend designation
 * Comments were editing only
 * Pohlman recommended designating Robertson Millpond Preserve as a WakeNature Preserve; Hess second
 * In favor: Audubon, Raleigh, NCSU, TLC, NHP, Wake County, NC Museum
 * Not present: Herbarium, WRC, Soil & Water
 * Hess will poll remaining 3 by email
 * WRC responded "Yes" on 1 Oct

//**Capacity Committee**// (Gary Blank, chairman) GOAL: ** Bring resource managers together ** to carry out appropriate stewardship of the highest quality natural areas in Wake County.


 * Milkweed and Sumac planting (Connors)**
 * Milkweed planting at Horseshoe on Sat 10 October
 * Hess' class to plant milkweed and Sumac at Turnipseed - Wed 21 October
 * Wilkerson - milkweed and Sumac on Wed 28 Oct 9:30-noon
 * Temple Flat Rock after hike on 11.07