Welcome to LandScope North Carolina
Conservation Overview
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North Carolina Conservation Summary
Many Americans know North Carolina for the natural areas located at its opposite ends. Both the cool, lush-green mountains of the fog-shrouded southern Blue Ridge Mountains and the Outer Banks' slender necklace of barrier islands host millions of visitors each year. The state, though, includes a distinctive collection of ecological treasures between these regions as well.
Conservation Priorities in North Carolina
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North Carolina Wildlife Action Plan
Many of the threats facing species North Carolina's wildlife and their habitats are derived from the significant growth of the state's human population in recent decades. The Wildlife Action Plan takes a habitat-based approach to addressing the needs of the state's conservation priority wildlife, and includes strategies for urban wildlife management, private lands management, land conservation and conservation education, outreach and recreation.
