Uwharries to Sandhills Landscape Collaborative
The Uwharries to Sandhills Landscape Collaborative (USLC) will improve forest health by restoring privately and publicly owned pine forests to an open-canopy condition in and around Uwharrie National Forest (UNF), and in a habitat corridor between the Uwharries and the NC Sandhills ecoregion.
The Uwharries are located within the NC Sandhills Longleaf Local Implementation Team boundary of the America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative. The Uwharries to Sandhills Landscape Collaborative (USLC) will improve forest health by restoring privately and publicly owned pine forests to an open-canopy condition in and around Uwharrie National Forest (UNF), and in a habitat corridor between the Uwharries and the NC Sandhills ecoregion.
To sustain project outcomes, private landowners will be trained and mentored to conduct prescribed burning on their land by the Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association (PBA), and project partners.
Partners: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association, North Carolina Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy
- FY 2022
- FY 2022 Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Project
- Total FY22 Funding Request: $654,440
