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2011 Green Book 2011 grEEn book LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION An Excellent Investment AbouT LAnD for ToMorroW 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 the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund (ADFPTF) – are well funded. north Carolina leaders have been forward-thinking, creating the trust funds and continuing to fund them over the 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. While conservation has kept many areas natural, Photo © Debbie Crane it has also played a major role in the state’s economy, report participated in the summit. boosting agriculture, tourism, forestry, hunting, fishing great trust funds need both the flexibility and and wildlife-watching. The participants – who included former gov. Jim capacity to take advantage of what is an Martin, a republican, and Lt. gov. Walter Dalton, a unprecedented buyer’s market,” he said. Land for Tomorrow publishes this annual green book Democrat – agreed that conservation funding is vital to to provide an update on the current state of public This report gives you an idea of what conservation north Carolina’s economy. In the past couple of state conservation funding in north Carolina. This year’s funding has already done for north Carolina. It includes budget years, public conservation funding has been green book recaps the organization’s recent seminar a county-by-county list so you can see what has happened reduced by more than 50 percent. Martin noted that the “Conservation Economics 2011: keeping north in your community as a result of the state’s conservation time to be making investments is now, when the public Carolina in the green.” The people quoted in this trust funds. We must continue to build on this success, can get a greater return on these investments. “These which has touched all of north Carolina’s 100 counties. Cover Photos: From Left: © Megan Sutton/TNC; Soldiers © Cpl. Kissta M. Felderner, 82 Airborne Division; Kids © SAHC; Paddling ©TNC LAND & WATER COnsERVATION – An Excellent Investment north Carolinians are getting a good return on their investment in land and water conservation, according to a study commissioned this year by Land for Tomorrow. The study, by the Trust for Public Land, found that for every $1 invested by the four state conservation trust funds, north Carolinians get a $4 return from “natural goods and services” such as drinking water protection, flood control and cleaner air. That’s a conservative figure. The full economic payoff is even greater when considering the significant benefits of land and water conservation on the agricultural, tourism, recreational and military industries, which were not calculated in the report. Since 1971, north Carolina’s constitution has called for protecting our natural resources. For decades the general Assembly and every governor have supported funding the four conservation trust funds as the primary means for meeting that constitutional directive. This funding has benefitted communities in all 100 counties. ConSErVATIon booSTS THE Photo © Debbie Crane/TC TOURISM AnD rECrEATIonAL “It shall be the policy of this State to conserve and protect its lands and waters for the benefit of all its ECONOMY citizenry, and to this end it shall be a proper function of the State of North Carolina and its political one place that has benefited from the state’s investment subdivisions to acquire and preserve park, recreational, and scenic areas, to control and limit the in conservation is rutherford County, where Chimney pollution of our air and water, to control excessive noise, and in every other appropriate way to preserve rock State Park is one of six new state parks created as a part of the common heritage of this State its forests, wetlands, estuaries, beaches, historical sites, since 2002. A 2008 study by north Carolina State open lands, and places of beauty.” NORTH CAROLinA COnsTITUTION, ARTicLE XIV, SECTION 5 2 | 2011 Green Book STATE TOURisM FACTS: north Carolina’s Conservation Trust Funds • N.C. travel and tourism generates $22.2 billion a year north Carolina has four publicly funded conservation trust funds. • This economic activity sustains 378,000 jobs 8.6 percent of all wage and salary The Natural Heritage Trust Fund, created in 1987, provides funding for the acquisition and protection of employment in the state is directly or important natural and cultural areas. Acquisitions include land that is home to rare plant and animal species, indirectly dependent on tourism. and important wildlife habitats. It also covers the acquisition of sites that are significant to North Carolina’s • Tourism in North Carolina generates $2.6 cultural history. To date, it has funded more than $322 million in projects. billion in state and local taxes and $2.7 billion in federal taxes. The Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, created in 1994, funds improvements in the state’s park system, • Tourism saves every North Carolina family dollar-for-dollar matching grants to local government for parks, and grants to local government to improve $360 per year in taxes public beach and estuarine access. It is the main source of funding for most state park improvements or SOURCE: North Carolina Department of Commerce acquisition of land to create new parks or expand existing ones. To date, it has funded more than $427 million in projects. university researchers estimated that state parks add The Clean Water Management Trust Fund, created in 1996, makes grants to local governments, state $400 million annually to the economy. That study was agencies and conservation nonprofits to help finance projects that address water pollution. It covers land completed before the state parks system recorded two years of record visitation, with more than 14 million acquisitions that protect watersheds. It also funds other solutions to pollution, such as wastewater treatment or visitors each year in 2009 and 2010. “Protecting our storm water upgrades. To date, it has funded more than $961 million in projects. environment can and should go hand in hand with growing our economy,” Lt. gov. Walter Dalton, a The Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund, created in 2005, funds rutherford County native, explains. “our state parks conservation easements on lands used for production of food, fiber and other agricultural products. It also are conservation economics in action.” supports public and private programs that promote profitable and sustainable agricultural, horticultural and forestland activities. To date, it has funded $16 million in projects. north Carolina’s scenery has been a draw for many years. The forests and mountains around Asheville attracted george Vanderbilt back in the 1880s. land for tomorrow | 3 “biltmore has always been about the land,” says Steve Shields, who lives near the roanoke on a farm that has Miller, Executive Vice President of the biltmore been in her husband’s family for five generations, serves Company. “george Vanderbilt created an estate that on the board of roanoke river Partners, which works on would preserve and conserve the land to be economically nature-based economic development. The group built profitable.” More than a million people visit the its first riverside camping platform in 1999. “We just biltmore Estate every year, pumping $350 million into celebrated 10,000 camper nights,” she says. “We are the community, including $12 million in taxes. cultivating entrepreneurs along the river, lots of start-up businesses – people advertising paddling trips, outfitters, The Vanderbilts understood the need to conserve land. musicians playing in venues along the river. Every time That’s why Vanderbilt’s widow, Edith, sold 86,000 acres we are in a group, I get someone on the list that has a to the u.S. Department of Agriculture in 1914, the core budding river-related business for our region.” of what is now Pisgah national Forest. Visitors today can enjoy a view that is largely unchanged since Vanderbilt’s Shields says the scenery along the river is a commodity. day. “It is absolutely impossible to capture that experience “People come to Eastern North Carolina because if we didn’t have the beautiful land,” says Miller. of its beautiful undeveloped spaces – to see and experience things here they haven’t seen before. As the economy around Asheville changed, with This inherent wildness is our unique product.” manufacturing facilities closing – often leaving for foreign countries – Miller says the area’s natural The roanoke was also one of the beneficiaries of the resources have proved particularly important. “As we lost largest single conservation land deal in the state’s history, manufacturing jobs, I don’t know what our area would resulting in more than 76,000 acres of protected lands have done without tourism to pick those jobs up,” he says. He says that land and water conservation will THE HOOK AND BULLET ECONOMY continue to provide jobs that can’t be outsourced: “Our industry can’t ship our jobs to China.” In 2006, 3.4 million people participated in hunting, fishing or wildlife viewing northeastern north Carolina is another area that has • They spent $2.62 billion been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing facilities. Carol Shields says communities along the roanoke • They created $1.26 billion in salaries and wages, river are returning to their roots. “Historically, we supporting 42,500 jobs have derived our living from the land and water. • Total economic effect = $4.3 billion Ecotourism is a new way of making a living from the N.C.
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