North Carolina Sandhills Conservation Partnership

The mission of the NCSCP is to coordinate the development and implementation of conservation strategies for the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis), other native biota, longleaf pine and other ecosystems in the Sandhills of North Carolina.

Resource Management Working Group

The mission of the NCSCP Resource Management Working Group is to identify issues regarding longleaf ecosystem management in a landscape with mixed ownership (public and private), and develop recommendations to resolve those issues. Objectives include:

Optimize the ability of land managers to cooperatively apply landscape management concepts on conservation lands
Establish opportunities for the exchange of information and ideas between conservation land managers
Provide forested habitat buffers around and linkages between, existing conservation lands
Encourage private landowners to manage their lands in a manner compatible with natural resource management of public lands and private conservation lands
Establish opportunities for the exchange of information and ideas with private landowners

Additionally, 3 groups were formed based on recommendations from the NCSCP Resource Management Working Group. These include:

Land Manager's Working Group
Private Landowner Council
NC Sandhills Prescribed Fire Council