As The DENR Turns

• Protect the environment and natural resources of North Carolina. 
• Achieve excellence in customer service. 
• Help people more easily navigate the maze of permits and regulations. 

These goals top the list that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and DENR Secretary John Skvarla have for this agency. Changes in organizational structure, streamlining of processes, and efforts to enhance results, efficiency and cost models are yielding favorable results. Survey results revealed significant improvements now as compared to a similar survey in 2011. 

To see the annual recap of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources big environmental news for 2013, visit 

http://bit.ly/1l27A4S or click Recap.

For DENR organizational charts visit http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/o-chart or click Chart.

For contact information visit http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/contacts or click Contacts. 

Southwest
Stream Restoration Conference

Returning to San Antonio just a year after the inaugural Southwest Stream Restoration Conference in 2013, Resource Institute, Inc. is a hosting the conference, at the Hyatt Regency on May 28-30. Explore the Science, Engineering and Technology behind Stream Restoration in the region. Sessions  include presentations by natural resource professionals sharing their experience and learning with innovations and unique projects. Break-out sessions on design tools, methods, and adaptations; prediction and monitoring, permitting processes, stream policy; stream assessment methodologies; headwater streams, post-disaster techniques; and, watershed scale planning and restoration.    

Enjoy the delights of San Antonio: The Alamo Mission, River Walk, and all the fabulous restaurants, clubs, museums, art galleries, sports venues, zoo, and theme parks.

To learn more about the conference, click here: 

Click here to register. 

Our partners are non-profit organizations, local governments, private organizations, and civic-minded individuals interested in improving the welfare of their communities through the conscientious development of community resources. They partner with Resource Institute because they value our project assistance and guidance in bringing projects to successful completion. Resource Institute helps with project definition and finding funding sources. We assist and help direct conceptual planning, design, and engineering. We overview daily, on-the-ground construction management, manage grant reporting requirements, and most important, we help assure project completion. In short, Resource Institute helps its partners transform worthwhile community projects into real community assets.

Resource Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization operating to serve community interests without the business demands of a for-profit corporation. As such, we help to reduce total project costs. Moreover, as a nonprofit, Resource Institute has the capacity to seek and find funding sources for partner projects related to conservation, stream restoration, environmental education, and the stewardship of natural resources-funding sources that are not available to for-profit companies. 

installed a pervious parking surface and some large boulder barriers to control what had been indiscriminate parking in an unpaved area, often dangerously close to the stream bank. "The project shifted the energy of the flowing water back into the center of the channel," said McComb, "and away from our stream banks which had been previously eroded."

"The public has responded favorably to the work we did," said McComb. "The most frequent comment is, 'When are we going to mow?' But, after we explain that not mowing next to the creek is actually saving their walking trail from eroding away, they thank us for the project. Everybody is learning something."

"Resource Institute was a critical player in this project from start to finish," added McComb. "They excel in providing high quality service and are a wealth of knowledge about all aspects of the project from funding strategies to assisting with construction issues and site management. The success of this project clearly hinged on their involvement and leadership. We are grateful to have had them as a partner."

The $417,000 project was supported by monies provided by both state and federal sources along with local funding.