North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s Environmental Directives to Protect and Restore Forests and Wetlands to Counter Climate Change – Archyde

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Cooper’s office called the executive action the most significant by a governor to protect the state’s ecosystems since then-Gov. Jim Hunt’s “Million Acre Initiative” for land preservation was announced in 1999.
Among other items, the order from Cooper, a Democrat in his final year as governor, also directed state agencies to use plants and seeds in landscaping projects that are native to the Southeast, with a preference for North Carolina-native plants. He told agencies to seek federal funding to preserve wetlands that improve the state’s resiliency to flooding and water quality.
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Cooper signed an executive order on Monday that in part sets statewide targets for governments and private land-protection groups by 2040 to both “permanently conserve” 1 million acres of forests and wetlands and to restore 1 million new acres of similar lands. The governor also wants 1 million new trees planted in urban areas by 2040.
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“As our state continues to grow, we must be mindful to conserve and protect our natural resources,” Cooper said in a news release following the order’s signing at Falls Lake State Recreation Area east of Durham. The plan, he added, “will help us leave our state better than we found it for generations to come.”

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