A Low Point for Protecting Wildlife and Wild Places
September 30, 2015 will go down as a low point in the history of the conservation movement in the United States of America. Congress allowed the Land and Water Conservation Fund to expire.

Pilot Mountain State Park, North Carolina. One of North Carolina’s most distinctive natural features, Native Americans called Pilot Mountain “Jomeokee”, meaning “great guide.” Photo by Visit NC.
An Effective Program for Protecting Wildlife

Wilson Creek, North Carolina. Dear to the hearts of North Carolina’s trout anglers and center of North Carolina’s fly fishing history and traditions. Photo by Ken Thomas wikimedia.
We’re Not Giving Up
This is a setback, but we’re not giving up. We will be back. We will find a way to continue protecting land and water for this and future generations and we look forward to helping our champion, North Carolina’s Senator Richard Burr in accomplishing this!
Guest Author Tim Gestwicki
Tim Gestwicki is CEO of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) with over 20 years in non- profit conservation work. A sportsman who helped lead the building of an elite, formidable conservation organization recognized for effective and efficient work statewide, regionally and nationally, Tim has established a one of kind wildlife habitat coalition comprised of sporting and land conservation groups to work in unified fashion on agriculture, farm bill and private lands habitat efforts; and has initiated new wildlife habitat programs for developers, places of worship, and islands. Tim enjoys hunting and fishing in NC from the mountains to the coast.