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 * media type="youtube" key="1ZCuBOVx5oQ?fs=1" height="379" width="475" ||  || **//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.
 * identify and designate as “WakeNature Preserves” protected open spaces in Wake County that contain important ecological or geological resources or meet other criteria that qualify them for this distinction;
 * create more public awareness and appreciation of our highest quality natural areas in Wake County;
 * develop the organizational capacity to conduct natural resource inventories on and develop management plans for Preserves;
 * develop an organized, volunteer base of citizen-scientists to monitor Preserves.

Printable summaries:


||  ||   //**WakeNature holds Invasive Plant Management workshop.** Gary Blank (NC State U, front, just right of center, with walking stick) and Ross Sullivan (Wake County Parks, Recreation, & Open Space, orange shirt, right of Blank) welcome participants to the workshop, held in Lake Raleigh Woods and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation on NCSU's campus. Some 40 people registered for the workshop, and continuing education credits were certified by four different organizations. Participants examined and discussed invasive species in Lake Raleigh Woods, looked at an invasive plant control experiment led by Sullivan, and heard 4 presentations on invasive plant management. WakeNature is planning to hold workshops twice per year, with the next one some in March, 2013, on producing management plans for nature preserves.// // 2012 Sep 25. // ||


 * Partnership Members** //If you are a member and not listed, please add your information.//

(Chairman, Steering Committee) || Raleigh Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Resources ||
 * For further information**//, please contact a member of the steering committee).//
 * **__Name__** || **__Affiliation__** ||
 * Deborah Fowler (Steering Committee) || Wake County Parks, Recreation, & Open Space ||
 * Meghan Teten (Steering Committee) || North Carolina State University ||
 * Scott Pohlman (Steering Committee, Chairman) || NC Natural Heritage Program ||
 * George Hess || North Carolina State University ||
 * David Shouse
 * Jenn Beedle || Recreation Resources Service/North Carolina State University ||
 * Gary Blank || North Carolina State University ||
 * Leigh Ann Hammerbacher || Triangle Land Conservancy ||
 * Kaytee Holcombe || NC Museum of Natural Sciences ||
 * Brooke Massa || NC Wildlife Resources Commission ||
 * Gary Perlmutter || UNC Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden / Associate (Lichens) ||
 * Melissa Salter ||  ||
 * Charlynne Smith || North Carolina State University ||
 * Chris Snow || Wake County Parks, Recreation, & Open Space ||
 * Jackie Trickel || Wake County Parks, Recreation & Open Space / Crowder District Park ||
 * John Connors || Wake Audubon ||
 * Steph Jeffries || North Carolina State University ||


 * Community support**
 * Wake County Mayors Association
 * Wake County Open Space and Parks Advisory Committee (OSAPAC)
 * Capital Group Sierra Club Conservation Committee and Executive Committee
 * Wake County Board of Commissioners (May 17, 2010)

This wiki is for the use of the WakeNature Preserves Partnership and contains documents and notes for sharing among group members. The wiki is set up so that **anyone with web access can view the pages** but only invited members may edit them.

This wiki is administered by [|George Hess] (NC State University). Please [|contact him] with comments, concerns, or to request membership.