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Private citizens in North Carolina are participating in a grassroots movement to set aside areas in land trusts that will preserve wildlife habitats and relieve pressure on government to purchase such lands.
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Private land trusts seek to preserve environmentally important land areas. By doing so, land trusts serve as a restraint to urban sprawl and development. To date, they have protected almost 60,000 acres of state land. Roe describes land trusts and techniques they use, such as partnerships with private buyers, to accomplish their preservation goals.
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The North Carolina Environmental Policy Act was born out of the environmental enthusiasm and mold of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. NC-EPA required state agencies to comply with the goals of the state's environmental conservation policy. The NC-EPA provides a potentially powerful tool for environmental planning and open decision-making and can assist local governments concerned with land and resource management; however, the Act has been little utilized in implementing guidelines.
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As North Carolina deals with growing populations and increasing urbanization, it runs the risk of losing irreplaceable natural resources. State agencies are thus in active efforts to conserve these areas.
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North Carolina is endowed in richly varied natural landscapes, but with growing populations and urban areas, the threat to natural resources is increasing. North Carolina has recognized that its natural heritage is imperiled and has thus instituted assistance and programs to ensure the survival of the state's natural legacies.
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North Carolina’s natural landscape is rich and diverse thus the Natural Heritage Program is engaged in inventorying the state’s natural areas in order to identify areas that require the most protection.
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North Carolina’s Natural Heritage Program biologists are searching for our finest remaining natural areas to protect them from destruction. They are particularly interested in finding remnants of mature longleaf pine dominated forests in the Coastal Plan and Sandhills region and for intact bogs and swamps in the Mountain region.
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The North Carolina National Heritage Program monitors and records the locations of the state’s natural diversity. So far, 850 natural areas with exceptional importance have been identified throughout the state. Landowners have voluntarily pledged to protect parts of these areas and have registered them as Natural Heritage Areas.
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Seven local Audubon chapters have coalesced a North Carolina Audubon Council which coordinates activities and communicates information on state issues of common concern. The Council’s highest priorities in 1982 are promotion of legislation to generate funds for nongame wildlife and natural areas conservation, and protection of barrier islands and wetlands from development.
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The Registry of Natural Heritage Areas is a way to identify and encourage protection of North Carolina’s finest natural areas and diversity. So far, over one hundred natural areas have been registered as protected by their owners. They are protecting resources such as waterfowl, marshes, coastal cypress forests, sea turtle nesting beaches, and rare Piedmont plant habitats.
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Recently the Environmental Studies Council at the University of North Carolina surveyed 1,000 influential North Carolinians to find what they considered to be the state's most important environmental problems. Water quality, waste disposal, and industrial pollution ranked among the top.