The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is looking to connect with landowners within the tribe for an interactive session designed to support landowners in strengthening stewardship and long-term care of their lands.
The Tribe will host a Landowner Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. at the Soaring Eagle Tribal Building, located at 422 Norment Road in Lumberton. The meeting will be a chance to connect landowners one-on-one with experts offering tools, resources and technical guidance to promote sustainable and productive land management.
“We've been able to form partnerships with other organizations, such as Working Lands Trust, [NC foundation for] Solar Water Conservation, The Nature Conservancy and other conservation organizations, and be able to provide these resources to our tribal members in our community,” shared Larry Edwards, interim manager for the tribe’s Agriculture & Natural Resources Department. “We're putting together this workshop for landowners to come in, and there'll be a brief kind of introduction and then they will have tables set up so the landowners can go around and be able to speak individually with these partners.”
The meeting will cover topics such as:
Previous environment focused workshops have been held covering topics such as prescribed burns and longleaf pine restoration. These workshops have been made possible by grant money awarded from environment conservation programs.
Edwards shared that this meeting is a way to show support to local landowners in upkeeping their property instead of being tempted to sell it.
“We're finding in our community [that] we have a lot of landowners that have land that's not being used, this gives them the opportunity to still be able to look at other financial resources for their land,” continued Edwards. “A lot of our tribal members take great pride in inherited land and being able to keep that land in agriculture or forestry or conservation use.”
The event is free to attend and registration is required. You can register for the event here.
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