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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**

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


 * Discussion of how to get more people and agencies involved in WakeNature - what approach should we take - can we bring people to and do things at the bioblitz to start moving this forward (Shouse)
 * Need location for May/June/July

//**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.

From Kaytee: Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting. I am at a conference today.

Checkout the updated website!

I have created a page for the BioBlitz along with a registration form. I am planning on attending and helping with the Friday event.

BioBlitz
 * need to wrap up details
 * no funds for food - bring your own lunch
 * Connors will bring coffee and donuts and such for morning and break
 * Need to decide on what we'll do for Saturday 11 April
 * shou ld we invite City Councilor, County Commissioners, etc
 * Need to set cameras out in advance (Hess)
 * cover-boards need to be laid out (Connors)

Service Raleigh at Turnipseed Nature Preserve


 * NOTES**

FRIDAY

8-9:45 Herps
 * Connors has put out 21 cover boards already
 * Turtle trap is out in lake
 * Kaly can work with Daniel Wheeler (maybe)

Mammals
 * Two trapping areas for mammals - will set out total of 30 traps (night before) Ben Hess doing
 * Camera traps a couple of weeks before; images in the office for people to look at
 * 20 people start herps 20 start mammals, then switch at about 8:50A

10-noon Classroom
 * Follow Melissa's agenda
 * Add Pop-up presentations about camera traps, WakeWonder, green-growth toolbox
 * Ed Corey & Amy Corbally

12.30-2.15
 * Veg / Bird switch approx 1:20
 * Julie Moore / Milo Pyne on vegetative communities
 * Wentworth to set up 2 DEMO CVS plots - other veg people working on CVS plots - one on rocks, one for public view; Lichen survey

2:30-4:00
 * Insects & Streams
 * Steve Grodsky, Brian Bochahn (insect inventory)
 * Christine Goforth (aquatic insects, macro inverts)
 * Perianne Russell - Rapid Stream Assessment

4:15-4:30 wrapup

7-9 Nocturnal Surveys
 * Insects black lights - Christine Goforth
 * Frog call survey - Connors, Corey, Bochahn
 * Night sounds
 * Anabat technology - Corey?, NC Museum

Want list of resources from each person - 5 or so links or documents. Hess will collect documents and links - have people send to him.

SATURDAY

Birds (Scott Anderson) / Herps (John Connors) / Trees (Sally Thigpen) - one hour each - 20 people max

Service Raleigh at Turnipseed CANCELED - Robertson not available, too much on our plate - do something in the fall

//**Inventory Committee**// (Scott Pohlman, chairman) GOAL: ** Places on the ground ** - designate publicly accessible WakeNature Preserves.
 * No agenda items

//**Capacity Committee**// (Gary Blank, chairman) GOAL: ** Bring resource managers together ** to carry out appropriate stewardship of the highest quality natural areas in Wake County.
 * Any updates on sumac project - It is OK to plant at Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD, Nature Preserve as well as at Turnipseed

//**Other Business**//
Robertson Mill Pond opens June/July