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NC Center for Public Policy Research 219 Fayetteville Street Mall, Suite 400 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 (919)832-2839 • • • • • • %bl a. 0 'r ;fir F ,, . • • M a• N.C. Center for Public Policy Research Boardof Directors Keith Crisco Betty Ann Knudsen The North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Frances Cummings Thelma Lennon is an independent research and educational institution Thad L. Beyle Walter DeVries Hugh Morton formed to study state government policies and practices Charles Z . Flack , Jr . Vice Chair Roy Parker , Jr Joel L . Fleishman Betty Chafin Rash without partisan bias or political intent . Its purpose is to Grace Rohrer Virginia Ann Foxx Kay Sebian enrich the dialogue between private citizens and public Secretary Karen E. Gottovi McNeill Smith officials, and its constituency is the people of this state. Jacqueline Morris-Goodson R. Darrell Hancock Asa Spaulding, Jr. The Center' s broad institutional goal is the stimulation of Treasurer William G. Hancock, Jr. Robert W. Spearman greater interest in public affairs and a better understanding V. B. (Hawk) Johnson Watts Hill, Jr. Mary Pinchbeck Teets Jeanne Hoffman Alfreda Webb of the profound impact state government has each day on Thomas L. Barringer Mary Hopper Cameron West everyone in North Carolina. Marilyn R. Bissell Sandra L. Johnson Betty H. Wiser Daniel T. Blue, Jr. A non-profit, non -partisan organization , the Center was formed in 1977 by a diverse group of private citizens "for the purpose of gathering, analyzing and disseminating information concerning North Carolina's institutions of government." It is guided by a self-electing Board of Directors , and has individual and corporate members Executive Director across the state. Ran Coble Center projects include the issuance of special reports on major policy questions; the publication of a quarterly magazine called N.C. Insight; the production of a sympo- sium or seminar each year; and the regular participation of SpecialProject Center Staff Interns members of the staff and the Board in public affairs pro- Beth Briggs William Haflett grams around the state . An attempt is made in the various Jim Bryan Directory of NC Foundations Sandra Martin Bill Finger Anita Gunn Keith Springle projects undertaken by the Center to synthesize the integrity Pam Hunt Susan Wall of scholarly research with the readability of good journalism. Lacy Maddox Each Center publication represents an effort to amplify Nancy Richmond conflicting views on the subject under study and to reach conclusions based on a sound rationalization of these competing ideas . Whenever possible, Center publications advance recommendations for changes in governmental policies and practices that would seem , based on our research, to hold promise for the improvement of govern- ment service to the people of North Carolina. The Guide to Environmental Organizations in North Carolina by Lisa Blumenthal NC Center for Public Policy Research 219 Fayetteville Street Mall, Suite 400 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 (919)832-2839 This guide was made possible by a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Table of Contents Page 5 Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... 6 Foreword ............................................................................................... Summary Executive7 ...................................................................................... Part I. Private Environmental Organizations 18 groups ..................................................................................... all of List A. 20 group ............................................................................. each of Descriptions B. Part II. Other Groups for Which the Environment Is a Secondary Concern 130 groups ................................................................................... Agricultural A. 134 .................................................................................. groups Beautification B. 137 ........................................................................................ groups Energy C. 143 groups ........................................................................................ Health D. 146 ........................................................................... centers nature Museums and E. 154 ............................................................................................... Others F. G. North Carolina Wildlife Federation member groups ....................................................... 155 Part III. State Government Agencies With Responsibilities in Environmental Management 159 .................................................................................... agencies all of List A. B. Descriptions of each agency with the environment as a primary concern ..................................... 160 C. Descriptions of each agency with the environment as a secondary concern .................................... 211 Part IV. Boards , Commissions, and Councils in State Government with Responsibilities in Environmental Management A. List of boards, commissions, and councils ............................................................... 221 B. Descriptions of each board, commission, and council ...................................................... 222 Indices 264 ................................................................................ issue environmental By A. 268 .................................................................................... city and county By B. 270 ............................................................... groups environmental of concerns Primary C. Acknowledgements The North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research and I wish to Governor James Holshouser; Milton Heath, Assistant Director of the express our deep gratitude to a number of people and organizations. Institute of Government at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill They include all those persons in various environmental organizations and Professor of Environmental and Public Law; and Anne Taylor, and in state government who generously provided information for Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources in the Department of inclusion in this guide. Natural Resources and Community Development. First, I want to thank Dr. Eugene Odum, the man whom many call "the Interns at the NC Center for Public Policy Research-Rachel Frankel, father of ecology," who graciously provided not only advice and Alison Gray, John Eley, and Keith Springle - also provided valuable guidance about the contents of the book but also wrote its foreword. and timely aid throughout the project. Recognition and appreciation is due the advisory panel and the NC Special thanks to Tom Massengale of the Southeast Regional Nature Center's Board of Directors for their initial commitment and periodic Conservancy, to Jane Sharp and John Runkle of the Conservation assessment of the guide. The advisory panel included: Dr. Dave Adams, Council of North Carolina, and to Derb Carter, Bill Holman, and Todd Associate Professor of Forestry and University Studies at NC State Miller for their initial encouragement and continued constructive University; Dr. Art Cooper, Head of the School of Forest Resources reviews and suggestions. at NC State University; Jim Harrington, President of Cambridge Properties, Inc. (a real estate and development company) and Everyone who worked on this project has enhanced the efforts of former Secretary of Natural and Economic Resources under thousands of North Carolinians to preserve their "goodliest land." 5 Foreword by Eugene P. Odum, Director Institute of Ecology University of Georgia The 1970's will probably go down in history as the decade of often ineffective, especially at the state level. environmental awareness, a time when citizens of this country and, to some extent worldwide, became concerned about threats to the quality Lisa Blumenthal has rendered a valuable service by compiling a of their environment. People in general began to realize that complete directory of the environmental organizations in North Carolina. This "laissez-faire" in development could be deleterious to their own health work is not only a useful reference for those interested in contacting or and welfare. Haphazard growth that disrupts the life support capacity of joining organizations supporting particular causes, but it also provides a the natural environment is not good for business either, since the good general picture of the condition of environmental activism at the economy depends as much on resources-such as clean water, clean air, state level. It will surprise many to learn that there are more than a and good soils-as on technology. hundred citizens' environmental groups in North Carolina. I especially call your attention to the matrix table on pp. 13-16 that inventories It was during the 1970's that Congress established a national activities, goals, budgets and memberships. It is significant, I think, to Environmental Protection Agency and enacted into law the National note that only a third of the organizations engage in active lobbying and Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Air and Clean Water only a third are concerned with statewide issues. In other words, about acts. At state and local levels, existing citizen conservation two-thirds of the environmental organizations focus on local issues. organizations became more active politically , and many new While 81 percent of the groups claim to have long-range goals, organizations sprang up . State conservation or environmental approximately 40 percent
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