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Media contact: Mary Lou Addor, Natural Resources Leadership Institute Associate Director, 919.515.9602 or mary_addor@ncsu.edu
NOTE: A group photo of the graduates listed below is available by request to Natalie Hampton, 919.513.3128 or natalie_hampton@ncsu.edu
Institute Trains Natural Resource Leaders
Eighteen North Carolinians from across the state and a natural resources professional from Tennessee are the most recent graduates of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute at North Carolina State University.
Founded by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service at N.C. State, the NRLI is a nationally recognized leadership development program. Programs modeled on the NRLI are offered in Kentucky, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Montana, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and Indiana.
Housed within the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at N.C. State University, the NRLI has graduated 300 plus professionals since its inception in 1995. The NRLI is a capacity-building model, designed to build the leadership capability of North Carolinians involved in natural resource management and help them confront some of our most contentious environmental issues.
Graduates represent a diverse mixture of experiences, backgrounds, affiliations and geographic locations. During the 18-month leadership development program, participants explore the leader within and expand their understanding of leadership. Since 2002, Progress Energy has provided scholarships, enabling participants to attend who otherwise would not be able to do so.
As part of the applied learning environment, NRLI participants put knowledge to work by developing a leadership project guided by institute faculty. The faculty of the NRLI are: Mary Lou Addor, associate director, NRLI; Dr. Ed Jones, associate director, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service; Dr. John Stephens, associate professor, School of Government, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Dr. Toddi Steelman, associate professor of forestry and environmental resources, N.C. State; and Dr. Steve Smutko, Extension specialist, agricultural and resource economics.
Listed by county, the 2005 NRLI graduates, organizational affiliation and their projects are:
Buncombe County
Andrea Leslie, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Ecosystem Enhancement Program, Swannanoa
Project: Non-Traditional Mitigation Policy Development
Carolyn Wells, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Asheville
Project: Laying the Foundation for Adaptive Management of the Roan Mountain Massif
Cabarrus County
Dennis Testerman, Cabarrus Soil and Water Conservation District, West Concord
Project: Soil and Water Stewardship Week: Involving Traditional and Non-Traditional Partners
Craven County
Billy Tucker, Weyerhaeuser Inc., New Bern
Project: Weyerhaeuser Southern Timberlands: Protecting Natural Areas with Unique Ecological, Historical or Cultural Features
Durham County
Sandra Cavalieri, Nature Conservancy, Durham
Project: Onslow Bight Conservation Forum: Assessment of Strengths and Weaknesses from the Stakeholder's Perspective
Lenoir County
John Willis, N.C. Division of Forest Resources, Kinston
Project: Mitigating Wildfires in the Urban Interface Around the Croatan National Forest
Moore County
Jeff Marcus, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, Aberdeen
Project: Formation of the Greater Uwharries Conservation Partnership
New Hanover County
Kristin Miguez, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Ecosystem Enhancement Program, Wilmington
Project: Non-Traditional Mitigation Policy Development
Orange County
Mark Bost, N.C. Division of Forest Resources, Hillsborough
Project: Applied Training for the N.C. Division of Forest Resources
Jennifer Maxwell, UNC-Chapel Hill Recycling Center, Chapel Hill
Project: Expansion of the UNC Green Games Environmental Program Through Stakeholder Input
Surry County
Joanna Radford, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Dobson
Project: Developing Paddle Trails in Surry County with Stakeholder Input
Wake County
Michael Adamson, AMEC Earth and Environmental Services, Raleigh
Project: Procedures Manual for the N.C. Department of Transportation and Partners
Drew Cade, Wake County Parks, Recreation and Open Space; Morrisville
Project: Public Participation and Education in EPA's Remedial Study of the Ward Transformer Site
Tom Gerow Jr., N.C. Division of Forest Resources, Raleigh
Project: Facilitating Revisions of the N.C. Forestry Best Management Practices Manual
Russ Hardee, N.C. Division of Forest Resources, Rockingham
Project: Establishing the Piney Woods Trail System Through Partnerships
Kim Nimmer, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Water Quality, Raleigh
Project: Identification of Non-Point Source Pollution Priorities by Broadening the Role of North Carolina's Non-Point Source Work Group
Michael Schlegel, KCI Technologies Inc., Raleigh
Project: Stony Creek Watershed: Identification of Barriers to Implementing Stream and Wetland Restoration
Watauga County
Jocelyn Elliott, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Ecosystem Enhancement Program (Note: Elliott was a Wake County resident when she first started the program)
Project: Kraut Creek Enhancement Project: Coordination of Landowner and Community Outreach
Tennessee
William Pridemore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Project: Tennessee Natural Resources Leadership Institute: Providing Leadership and Civic Capacity for Tennesseans in the 21st Century
For more information on the Natural Resource Leadership Institute or to learn about the upcoming 2007 Leadership Development Program, contact Mary Lou Addor, 919.515.9602 or Mary_Addor@ncsu.edu, or visit the NRLI Web site, www.ces.ncsu.edu/NRLI .
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