BRIEF HISTORY and RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• The Wildlife Federation has an outstanding history of conservation leadership in North Carolina

• For example, we played fundamental roles in establishing the Wildlife Resources Commission, in creating the Alligator River and the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuges, in bringing recycling, sediment pollution, and buffer zone legislation to North Carolina, and in reintroducing endangered red wolves, bald eagles and river otters.

• Recently, NCWF took the lead in organizing the hunting and fishing community in North Carolina to successfully fight the proposed changes to the Clean Water Act regarding rollbacks of protections for isolated wetlands and intermittent streams.

• Our staff and professional wildlife and aquatic biologists are working to develop wildlife management plans for thousands of acres of habitat across North Carolina. For example, they are actively participating as Stakeholders in the dam Relicensing hearings for the Catawba and Pee Dee rivers, and in the forest management planning processes for several state and national parks.

• Our wildlife habitat certification projects have expanded to include backyards, schoolyards, workplaces, industrial sites, and lands managed by communities of faith. We continue to recruit and train volunteer Habitat Stewards who do much of the legwork for these certification projects.

NCWF will harness the power of hunters, anglers, and wildlife enthusiasts across North Carolina to advance the conservation movement. Currently, we are working to build and sustain a large and diverse activist base from this community. We are bringing to the table an ever larger and more diverse group of advocates for NC’s natural resources.