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Southern Conservation Partners helps local initiatives and communities across the southern U.S. to save, restore, and enhance premier environmental resources and natural heritage assets. We promote innovative collaborations designed to conserve and honor the South's natural heritage and ecological health. 

Board of Directors

  • Charles Roe, President:  
    previously Land Trust Alliance Southeast U.S. regional program director; and founding director of the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program & Conservation Trust for North Carolina 
  • Milo Pyne, Board Chair:  
    NatureServe senior regional ecologist
  • Hugh Archer:  
    Kentucky Natural Lands Trust co-founder and former executive director, now KNLT director for land protection
  • Charlotte Jones-Roe: 
    North Carolina Botanical Garden development director 
  • Julie H. Moore:  
    US Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Endangered Species; Longleaf Alliance board of directors 
  • Kathleen Williams: 
    Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation (TennGreen) founder and retired president, now senior advisor

     See a list of Our Advisors HERE.
Border region of Cherokee & Pisgah National Forests , TN/NC (photo by David Ramsey)
We believe in the power of partnerships, creativity, and storytelling to save, honor, and restore the South's natural heritage.

​Our Goals

  • Encourage and strengthen the capabilities of local initiatives to save, safeguard, and sustain the best of the South’s natural heritage.
  • Forge connections and foster collaboration among groups and individuals  sharing similar objectives.
  • Help local project leaders improve skills so they can manage their programs effectively to reach their conservation objecti

How It Works

  • SCP is a service center that provides matchmaking, educational, and umbrella assistance.
  • SCP is designed to be an entrepreneurial, innovative, adaptive, opportunity-oriented, and resourceful change agent.
  • SCP does not hold land or conservation easements; we are not a membership organization.
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Photo by Mac Stone

What's New?

Southern Conservation Partners provides fiscal sponsorship for the North Carolina Biodiversity Project.
 HELP US PLEASE
Southern Conservation Partners is voluntarily operated. We depend on donations to finance our operational expenses and services. ​Consider becoming a partner and offering financial support for continued operation of Southern Conservation Partners or in support of a project we sponsor. You can send a check or donate through our secure online giving option offered through PayPal. Go to our CONTACT/SUPPORT page for more information.
​    Southern Conservation Partners, Inc., is IRS certified as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. 
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Southern Conservation Partners participates in the Conserve-A-Nation insurance program.