Southern Conservation Partners

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
former 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
retired 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
retired North Carolina Botanical Garden director of development and conservation
Julie H. Moore
retired US Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Endangered Species-Ecological Services; Longleaf Alliance founding board member
Kathleen Williams
retired Tennessee Parks & Greenways Foundation (TennGreen) founder and president

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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.

Photo by Mac Stone

Photo by Mike Dunn

HELP US PLEASE
Southern Conservation Partners is operated by volunteers. We depend on donations to finance our operational expenses and services. Become a partner and offer financial support for continued operation of SCP or in support of a project we sponsor. Send a check (address below) or donate through our secure online giving option offered through PayPal. (Southern Conservation Partners, Inc., is IRS certified as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. )

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.