American Farmland Trust
Nationwide Private, Non Profit
Web site: http://www.farmland.org/policy/funding.htm
Conservation Reserve Program
United States Department of Agriculture
Funding
Goals: To offer land owners rental payments, incentive payments, and cost-share assistance for using positive environmental practices on their land.
Web site: http://www.usda.gov
Cooperative Forestry
P.O. Box 96090
Washington, D.C. 20090-6090
Contact: Tel: 202-205-1389
E-mail: cf/wo@fs.fed.us
Conservation Reserve Program
The Conservation Reserve Program is a voluntary program that offers annual rental payments. Incentive payments for certain activities and cost share assistance to establish approved cover on eligible cropland.
Tim Jones
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Farm Services Agency
4407 Bland Road
Raleigh, NC 27609
Tel: 919-875-4818
Fund for Rural America
United States Department of Agriculture
Funding: grants and loans
Goals: To provide support to rural projects involving development, water, and waste water, distance learning and telemedicine, housing preservation, as well as research, extension and education.
Contacts: Maria Bunum: Tel: 202-720-5102
Jim Brownlee: Tel: 202-720-2091
Email: webmaster@www.rurdev.usda.gov
Web site: http://www.reeusda.gov/fra/#gran
Landowner Assistance Programs
United States Federal Government: Department of Agriculture
Goals: To help private landowners protect, improve, restore, and sustain private forests:
Forest Legacy Program
Forest Stewardship Program
Other Forest Service programs related to Landowner Assistance Programs
Try Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/cfda/iben54.htm
Rural Community Advancement
United States Department of Agriculture
Funding: State and local organizational levels. Venture capital and leveraging
Contact: Rural Development Public Affairs
Tel: 202-720-6903
Web site: http://www.usda.fov/farmbill/rcap.htm
Conservation Trust for North Carolina
Statewide nonprofit
Financial, technical assistance
Goals: To assist communities, citizen-based land trusts and landowners to protect lands of significant natural, scenic, cultural and recreational values.
Web site: http://metalab.unc.edu/ctnc/about/index.html
The Land Trust for Central North Carolina
Private, Non profit
Protection of land
Goals: Collaborates with other organizations for broad based, environmental stewardship/protection
of land in Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie, Iredell, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan , and Stanly counties.
Contact: Tel: 704-647-0068
Email: lantrust@salisbury.net
Web site: http://www.uwharrie.com/lakesregion/programs/Landtrust.html
NC Conservation Trust
An organization that coordinates all the regional organizations. This office can give you information for all the regional greenways and land trusts for the state
Chuck Roe: Director
POBox 33333
Raleigh, NC 27636-3333
Tel: 919-828-4199
Fax: 919-828-4508
www.ctnc.org
North Carolina Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
United States Department of Agriculture, State administration.
Funding, Technical Assistance
Goals: Aims environmental practices towards protecting Chesapeake Bay. Works to coordinate CREP with goals of North Carolina State Department of Natural Resources.
Web site: see Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/fra/#grants
Rural Communities Assistance Project
North Carolina Division of Technical Assistance, and Outreach
Goals: To ensure that all North Carolinians have affordable access to safe drinking water and sanitary waste disposal.
Contact: Tel: 919-542-7227
Piedmont Land Conservancy
Private, nonprofit ( needs to be confirmed)
Trust brokerage, technical assistance to land owners, funding search.
Goals: To provide protection of land in environmentally sensitive locations. Offers conservation options for North Carolina land owners, and conducts natural inventories to identify priority locations for protection in 9 county Piedmont Region
Land Trusts in North Carolina:
Contact: Tel: 336-691-0044
E-mail: plcland@concentric.net
Web Site: http://www.mayolawform.con/conservation/LandTrustsArea.html#northcarolina
River Network
Nonprofit, based in Portland, Oregon administrating Federal Grants to local communities nation wide
Funding through Watershed Assistance Grants
Goals: Supports communities working to restore and/or protect their watersheds.
Contacts: Kathey Luscher Tel: 503-241-3506 ext. 16
Thalia Zepatos Tel: 503-241-3506 ext. 40
Web site: http://www.rivernetwork.org/wapress.htm
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Private, Non-Profit
Technical Assistance, Land Acquisition
Goal: To offer Conservation Options for land protection
Tel: 828-253-0095
Web Site: http://www.appalacian.org/sahc/
Western North Carolina Alliance
Nonprofit
Organizational support
Goal: To provides a voice for people and communities who want to conserve the natural heritage of Western North Carolina.
Contact: Tel: 828-258-8737
Case Studies for this section: Sutphin Mill Community Farmland, Provincetown Forest, Old Hackett Farm, Pinecroft Lake Park, Walnut Bluffs and Black Walnut Bottom From Piedmont Land Conservancy.
Triangle J Council of Governments
Director of Regional Planning
100 Park Drive
POBox 12276/ Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Tel: 919-549 9320
Fax: 919-549-9390
Triangle Land Conservancy
Private, non profit
Technical assistance to land owners, land brokerage and ownership for protection
Goals: Land Protection: Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Lee, Orange, and Wake Counties
Contact: Executive Director: Kate Dixon
P.O. Box 13031
RTP, NC 2760
Web site: http://www.mindspring.com/~tlcpage/
Open Space & Farmland Preservation Websites:
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ruralma/CRM.html
http://www.farmland.org/
Arendt, Randall. 1993. Rural by Design. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association. [ISBN: 0-918286-85-9]
Beatley, Timothy and Kristy Manning. 1997. The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community. Washington DC: Island Press. [1-800-828-1302; ISBN: 1-55963-478-2; HT167.B43]
