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Our Team of Advisors . . .

  • Robert Abernethy (Aiken, SC) retired president of the Longleaf Alliance dedicated to restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems in the southern U.S.; previously National Wild Turkey Fed. program head
  • Elizabeth Barber (Ridgeland, MS)  principal Barber and Mann, Inc.; co-coordinator for Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
  • Suzanne Berl (Asheville, NC)  environmental organizational development consultant; past national board chair of River Network 
  • Manley Fuller (Hickory, NC)  conservation programs and public policy director for North Carolina Wildlife Federation; past president of Florida Wildlife Federation
  • Eileen Hennessy (Tennessee)  organizational development /conservation planning consultant; past director land protection programs for Land Trust for Tennessee and Piedmont Land Conservancy (NC)
  • Gary Knight  (Tallahassee, FL) retired long-term director of Florida Natural Areas Inventory program
  • Nelwyn McInnis  (Covington, LA) president of Southern Wild Heritage, LLC; Land Trust for Lousiana land conservation chair; retired from long career with The Nature Conservancy-Louisiana
  • Larry Smith  (Richmond, VA)  retired VA Natural Heritage Program manager of Virginia natural areas protection program, incl. land acquisition, conservation easements, caves and karst conservation
  •  Tom Smith (Richmond, VA)  assistant secretary of Virginia Dept. of Conservation & Recreation; formerly director of Virginia Natural Heritage Program
  • John Taggart (Wilmington, NC)  past director of NC Coastal Preserves program; semi-retired professor of conservation biology, ecology at UNC-Wilmington
  • Rickie White  (Durham, NC)  executive director of Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association; formerly NatureServe southeast US regional ecologist
  • Brad Wyche  (Greenville, SC) founder and retired president of Upstate Forever
Southern Conservation Partners
​P.O. Box 33222,  Raleigh N.C. 27636-3222
    Phone: 919-500-6598
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