Membership
You are welcome to join the Friends of Plant Conservation. Print the form below, complete and mail to:
Friends of Plant Conservation
c/o Nancy Stewart
1060 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1060
The membership committee will contact you with the latest issue of the newsletter and information about upcoming events.
BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Advance notice of educational programs and events
Invitation to each Annual Meeting (with a variety of speakers, site visits)
Quarterly newsletter and occassional e-Letter
Training programs for volunteer projects with experts in the field of botany and plant conservation
Stewardship opportunities (plant rescue and re-planting; preserve observation and/or maintenance)
Preserve visits: guided tours of NCPCP preserves and that plants that are under protection.
And most importantly, the knowledge that you have joined with a group of like-minded people concerned with saving NC's imperiled plants in their habitats, with regular opportunities to meet and share ideas with these members.
Click here for a copy of the membership application
Thank You !
Your membership assists with:
...A comprehensive system of public conservation lands designed to protect native plants, which is the best way to ensure their survival.
...The NCPCP has both the uniuque mission to conserve the native flora of NC in natural habitats, and the legislated authority to acquire and manage preservces to protect the states most imperiled flora.
...No other public conservation agency shares this specific goal. Consequently, many public conservation lands are designed and established without specific attention to rare plants.
...The NCPCP, working with scientific experts across NC, has completed a comprehensive assessment of threats to our rarest plants. The resulting list identified 295 species in urgent need of conservation attention (a number of these are precipitously declining).
...Preliminary results of an ongoing systematic review suggest that over 180,000 acres will b eneeded to protect just over 50% of these imperiled species (this analysis has only been completed for 162 species).
...The current system of 19 Plant Conservation preserves (at about 12,000 acres) is inadequate to conserve more than a handful of these species.
...Limited management resources (3 fulltime staff) pose serious barriers to the current preserves being optimally managed.