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//**WakeNature Preserves Partnership Meeting**//
Thursday 8:30-10 Training Lodge at Durant Nature Preserve, Raleigh, NC

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 * Attendance Notes**


 * Annotated Agenda Items**

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 * Introductions as needed**

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


 * Update and final planning for BioBlitz workshop on 10 April
 * Update on Environthon Field Training for Saturday 11 April
 * Mitchell's Mill workday in fall - get this on calendars

//**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.


 * WakeWonders bus tour - starting this process
 * audience?
 * timing?

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

Future of this Organization:

The mission of the WakeNature Preserves Partnership is to organize and provide resources to identify ecologically valuable, publicly owned open spaces within Wake County, NC, and to build capacity for appropriate management and long-term stewardship of those areas.

We envision a county-wide, cross-jurisdictional brand of ** WakeNature Preserves ** that highlights Wake County’s finest natural areas and increases public awareness and appreciation of these special places.

Our membership/attendance at meetings is low, and we seem to be struggling to find focus. Let’s talk about where we go from here.

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

//**Other Business**//
//**Michaux's sumac: 39 stems in pots, yards of root cuttings in storage for later potting; seeking location for care over the summer. Katie Thomas is working up the report on what we did and results of removal. Probably will have somewhere in the vicinity of 200 plants to relocate when sufficiently developed. May have more roots and shoots to remove in the fall.**//