1. Wildlife & Natural Resource Stewardship in Planning
GREEN GROWTH TOOLBOX
Wildlife & Natural Resource Stewardship in Planning
Brooke Massa
Land Conservation Biologist

2. To conserve North Carolina’s wildlife resources and their habitats and provide programs and opportunities that allow hunters, anglers, boaters; other outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy wildlife-associated recreation.
So how man

3. 5,500 acres

4. Voluntary What is Green Growth?
Conserving priority wildlife habitat while building homes, businesses & shopping centers
Green Growth is a proactive plannign approach that aims to protect environmentally sensitve natural areas and wildlife habitat while continuing development to support a growing human population.
Green Growth is not about stopping growth. Rather it is about directing growth away from sensitve areas and towards more environmentally degraded areas, doing so will reduce environmental conflicts and protect our natural rsources.

5. NATURAL ASSETS
Audobon.org
Barry Wicklow

6. Green Growth Toolbox Implementation
Over 430 land use planners & local government staff trained.
Over 90 counties, towns and cities
33 communities have received technical assistance & incorporated priority wildlife habitat in land use planning projects.
Since 2010.

7. Land Use Plans with Green Growth
Moore County
Harnett County
Bladen County
Anson County
Stanly County
Montgomery County
Union County
Jackson County
Aberdeen
Raleigh
Cary
Davidson
Southern Pines
Siler City
Navassa
Durham
72% - need funding to support conservation planning

8. Partners for Green Growth Cost-Share Assistance Pilot Project
Open Space & Natural Resources Protection section for the Land Use Plan that aims to:
Reduce impacts to the sensitive natural areas, priority habitats, and wildlife,
Maps and describes these resources and species,
Policy recommendations and strategies to protect and connect the habitats
Natural resource and habitat conservation policies will be
incorporated into other sections, as appropriate

9. Thank you! Questions? www.ncwildlife.org/greengrowth
Funding provided by
State Wildlife Grants
the Wildlife Conservation Society-Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
and the NC Non-Game Tax Checkoff Fund
Contacts with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission Habitat Conservation Program:
Brooke Massa
Piedmont Land Conservation Biologist
Gabriela Garrison
Eastern Piedmont Habitat Conservation Coordinator
Marla Chambers
Western DOT Habitat Conservation Coordinator
Shari Bryant
Western Piedmont Habitat Conservation Coordinator
Andrea Leslie
Mountain Habitat Conservation Coordinator  
Maria Dunn
Coastal Habitat Conservation Coordinator
David Cox
Technical Guidance Supervisor