Mission+and+Goals


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

Goals
 * To identify and designate as “Nature and Wildlife Preserves” protected open spaces in Wake County that contain important ecological or geological resources or meet other criteria that qualify them for this distinction;
 * To create more public awareness and appreciation of our highest quality natural areas in Wake County;
 * To develop the organizational capacity to conduct natural resource inventories on and develop management plans for Preserves;
 * To develop an organized, volunteer base of citizen-scientists to monitor Preserves.

Printable, one-page summary of partnership: [|WNPPExecSum.2009.02.16.pdf]