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Conservation Yearbook 2013 CONSERVATION YEARBOOK 2013 SAVING LAND, WATER AND MONEY about Land for Tomorrow is a statewide coalition of community leaders, organizations and local governments with a common goal: increasing land and water conservation. The coalition works to ensure that the state’s four conservation trust funds — Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF), Natural Heritage Trust Fund (NHTF), Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) and Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund (ADFPTF) — are well-funded. The creation and consistent funding of North Carolina’s conservation trust funds have been the result of bipartisan forward-thinking leadership over the past 25 years. This smart leadership has resulted in the preservation of hundreds of thousands of acres of family farms, forests, stream banks, game lands, parks, greenways and trails. Conservation has kept many areas natural, providing clean air and drinking water, flood control and recreational opportunities for North Carolina families. These land protection successes have also played a major role in the state’s The state’s conservation trust funds help with a variety of needs, including building playgrounds. Photo © North Carolina economy, boosting agriculture, the military, tourism, forestry, hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching. Recreation and PARK Association. It is important to note that the state trust funds are rarely the sole source of funding for any project. The trust funds are used to leverage other private, local and federal funds. For example, since its creation the Clean Water Management Trust Fund has invested $251,598,236 in 288 wastewater projects across the state, using those funds to leverage an additional $460,441,096. Land for Tomorrow publishes this annual report to provide an update on the state of public conservation funding and land protection successes in North Carolina. MORE INformation ABOuT LANd fOR TOMORROw IS available at land4tomorrow.org. Land and Water Conservation IS Good BUSINESS Land and water conservation and North Carolina’s economy Another easy connection can be made to the $7.5 billion are closely connected. Conservation is invaluable to the state’s outdoor recreation industry, which includes hunting and largest economic drivers – agriculture, the military, travel/ fishing. The state’s Clean Water Management Trust Fund has tourism and outdoor recreation. That’s why supporting the helped to add more than 170,000 acres to Wildlife Resource state’s conservation trust funds is good business. Commission game lands. Additional trust fund dollars have helped to preserve mountain streams, All of these INDUstries ensuring that trout are Dependent ON Land fishermen have a place to and Water Conservation cast a line. - $71.6 Billion Agriculture, including Agriculture forestry, remains North Land and water conservation is crucial to agriculture, which Military - $23.4 Billion Carolina’s No. 1 industry, is North Carolina’s No. 1 industry – contributing more than Travel and Tourism - $18.4 Billion contributing $71.6 billion $71 billion a year to the economy. Photo © SOUthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Outdoor Recreation - $7.5 Billion a year – 20 percent of North Carolina’s total Hunting and Fishing - $4.3 Billion income. Clean air, clean they remain a vital part of the state’s economy. water and the continued What would you say if someone came to you and said they availability of agricultural Chimney Rock is one of North Carolina’s iconic places preserved could guarantee a 300 percent return on an investment? You’d with state trust fund assistance. Photo © Charlie PeeK land are vital to probably be surprised, but conservation funding does. A 2011 agriculture. It can be study by the Trust for Public Land found that for every dollar argued that virtually every the state invests in land and water infrastructure, it sees a yield The dollar figures associated with conservation-dependent dollar spent on conservation benefits agriculture in some way. of $4 in natural goods and services such as clean water, clean industries are astounding. In some cases, it is easy to see that Land and water conservation have also been crucial to air and flood control. connection. The state’s travel and tourism industry, which protecting North Carolina’s military bases against Base contributes $18.4 billion a year to the economy and more than For all these reasons, conservation is good for the economy. As Realignment and Closure, ensuring that they stay open and 188,000 jobs for North Carolinians, is clearly tied to land and North Carolina continues to recover from the recent economic continue to pump $23.4 billion a year into the economy. The water conservation. People come here to enjoy places such as downturn, it is crucial that we continue to invest in land and state’s conservation trust funds have leveraged Department of Grandfather Mountain and Chimney Rock state parks, both of water conservation. Defense funding to preserve 16 miles of base boundary at Fort which used the state’s conservation trust funds to leverage Bragg and 50,000 acres around Camp Lejeune. Preventing This report tells the story of successful land and water other funding for their protection. incompatible uses around those bases helps to ensure that conservation projects that have had a positive impact on North 2 | Conservation Yearbook 2013 Carolina’s economy and North Carolinians. Please help us continue to strengthen North Carolina by supporting the state’s land and water conservation trust funds. They are a small, but very important, part of North Carolina’s budget. North Carolina’S Conservation TRust fuNdS North Carolina has four publicly funded conservation trust funds. The Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF), created in 1996, is a primary source of grants for hundreds of local governments, state agencies and conservation nonprofits LEFT: Hunting and fishing have traditionally played a huge role in North Carolina. The love for that kind of outdoor activity is often passed to address water pollution, protect clean water supplies and from generation to generation as evidenced by this picture of North Carolina Wildlife Federation CEO Tim Gestwicki’s daughter Rose with her catch. RIGHT: Tim Gestwicki says investment in land and water conservation is crucial as North Carolina continues to grow. upgrade water treatment capabilities. Funded projects have Photos © Tim GestwicKI significantly improved those communities’ ability to attract business investment. It also funds conservation easements on farms, forests and The Natural Heritage Trust Fund (NHTF), created in 1987, is Since its creation in 1996, the Clean Water Management horticultural lands for production of food, fiber and other funded by a portion of the state deed stamp tax and income Trust fund has helped to protect more than 170,000 acres of agricultural products. from personalized license plates. It provides funding for the new game lands. acquisition and protection of land that is home to rare plant ThE hunting ANd fIShINg North Carolina Wildlife Federation CEO Tim Gestwicki says this and animal species as well as important wildlife habitats. It also investment is particularly important as the state changes. “As covers the acquisition of sites significant to North Carolina’s CONNECTION North Carolina continues to grow it is imperative that the state cultural history. With well over 1 million licensed hunters and anglers, proactively works for game lands and watershed protections,” The Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF), created in sportsmen form the largest self-identified special interest group he explains. “All research points to a rapid continuation of 1994, is funded by a portion of the state deed stamp tax and a in the state. Sportsmen contribute directly to the state economy North Carolina population growth with estimates that by 2030 small portion of the personalized license plate revenues. It with license fees and fuel the economy via gear, ammo and the population will increase by the same amount as if the entire supports improvements in the state’s park system, provides tackle purchases as well as in gas, food, travel and lodging. In state of South Carolina was picked up and transplanted to dollar-for-dollar matching grants to local governments for parks fact, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sportsmen North Carolina. If we are going to continue to recruit and retain and assists improvements to public beach and estuarine access, contribute $3.3 billion annually to North Carolina’s economy, business in the face of this growth, preserving recreational which are important to local tourism economies. PARTF is the proving they are an economic engine for the state. areas is a key priority.” main source of funding for most state park improvements or “North Carolina is blessed with about 2 million acres of public Trout, in particular, need clean water. A 2009 study by land acquisition to create new parks and expand existing ones. game lands open to the public for all kinds of recreational Responsive Management and Southwick Associates found that The Agricultural Development and Farmland pursuits. The conservation trust funds were the sources of wise mountain trout fishing accounts for more than 92,000 anglers a Preservation Trust Fund (ADFPTF), created in 1986, investment in acquiring public lands over the past 20 years,” year, with a total economic value of $146 million to our state. supports public and private enterprise programs that promote explains Dick Hamilton, who leads the Camo Coalition, a group Game lands also are a wonderful resource for birders, hikers sustainable agricultural, horticultural and forestland activities. of hunters and anglers devoted to preserving their traditions. Saving Land, Water and Money | 3 and paddlers. Their presence helps to provide clean drinking that role, she has conducted more than 150 media tours of water and plays a valuable role in flood control. Dupont Forest since 2011. Interest began before the filming and continues to grow, with journalists from across the United Conservation IS States, Mexico, Canada and Europe eager to visit the site.
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