Wake SWCD offers technical assistance aimed at conserving local natural resources. Major focus areas include soil erosion control, water quality protection, forest/wildlife management, and flood control. Wake District Services are available to both rural and urban citizens in the county. Feel free to contact the Conservationist for your area.
Dale Threatt-Taylor, Division Supervisor Dale received a Bachelor of Science in Conservation from NC State University in 1991, beginning her career as a Soil Conservationist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Orange County. She later joined the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District as a Conservation Technician and progressively moved into one of the Natural Resource Conservationist positions. In August 2008 The Wake Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors appointed her as District Administrator (now District Director).
Dale’s passion to protect the natural resources of Wake County through voluntary programs extends across county lines through partnerships and regional leadership. She currently is serving in her second term as a Board member of the Triangle Land Conservancy and as TLC Communication Committee Chair. In January 2009 she began her service on the Conservation Trust for North Carolina as a board member. She also continues to serve as a board member of the NC Farm Transition Network and an Advisory member of the County Committee for the Wake County Farm Service Agency. Dale served for over ten years as the Scholarship Committee Chair of the NC Conservation District Employees Association.
Upon the completion of the 2006 Leadership Triangle class Dale joined the ranks of other local leaders as a Goodmon Fellow. She also completed the Center for Watershed Protection’s Watershed Institute technical watershed planning program in Ohio. She also served a term on the National Association of Conservation Districts Outlook Committee. In August of 2005 Dale was selected to attend the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation with participants from across the United States.
In 2009 Dale was admitted to Duke University Masters of Environmental Management / Duke Environmental Leadership Program. She also begins her service to the Wake County Sustainability Task Force (Staff Team).
Contact Dale at 919-250-1068 or dthreatttaylor@co.wake.nc.us
Teresa Furr has over 12 years of experience in natural resource management. In that time she has worked for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, US Army Fort Bragg, N.C. Forest Service, and the N.C. Division of Soil & Water Conservation. Her previous position was with NC Division of Soil & Water Conservation, where she was the statewide Program Manager for the NC Agricultural Cost Share Program, responsible for managing an annual budget of 8 million dollars.
Teresa graduated from Montgomery Community College with an Associates Degree in Forest Management. She currently serves on the CCAP Advisory Workgroup and the Technical Review Committee with the Division of Soil & Water Conservation.
Teresa is an energetic Wolfpack Fan who had the ultimate privilege of meeting Coach Kay Yow. Coach Yow has inspired me in many ways, but most of all she has empowered me to be a leader, to teach and give back to our youth and to make a difference in someone else’s life.
Away from the office, Teresa enjoys working and hiking outdoors, cooking and spending time with her two beautiful children.
Teresa Hice has over 24 years experience in natural resources management including water quality and watershed evaluation, planning and best management practice installation. She has experience in soil quality, conservation tillage, erosion control; urban Best Management Practices, stream assessments, and helping the public understand federal and state regulations. Teresa has worked for the Federal Crop Insurance Agency, and a private business computer programming firm. She has worked for the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District for over 24years.
Teresa earned a Bachelors of Sciences and a Masters Degree in Agronomy from the University of Georgia. She is a past president of the NC Conservation District Employees Association (NCCDEA). She has achieved the highest level, Masters III, of the Professional District Employees Program. Teresa was recently awarded the NCCDEA District Employee of 2009. Teresa Has been a member of NC Soil Quality Team since 2001and served as the editor of the newsletter for the same time. Teresa currently serves on the Area 4 Envirothon Committee and as the NCCDEA voting member on the CCAP Technical Review Committee.
Teresa has been happily married to John Hice since 1977 and the proud mother of Jennifer and Benjamin. She is an organic gardener, grows Shiitake mushrooms, and enjoys sewing, photography, music and dancing.
Sheila Jones directs Wake Soil and Water Conservation District’s Environmental Education, Public Outreach and Volunteer Programs to advance environmental literacy and environmental stewardship throughout Wake County.
Whether at a school, civic club meeting, adult workshop or public festival, Sheila engages Wake County citizens of all ages in learning about the natural resources that sustain them. All education activities aim to make environmental issues meaningful and relevant to everyday life, providing people with many options for conserving resources, preventing pollution, and making sustainable choices.
As Volunteer Coordinator, Sheila coordinates North Carolina Big Sweep in Wake County where volunteers practice environmental stewardship by cleaning up litter from streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands.
Sheila is a 20-year Wake County veteran, Past President of Environmental Educators of North Carolina and a life member of the North American Association for Environmental Education. She enjoys taking her blender for a whirl to make green smoothies and digging in the soil to make new discoveries.
Larry Petrovick has over thirty years experience in natural resources management including water quality and watershed evaluation, planning and best management practice installation. He has worked in, wildlife management, animal damage control, wildfire control, erosion control, urban drainage problems, home site selection, soil management and wetland management, recreation area management and helping the public understand federal and state regulations. Larry has worked for the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the US Army at Fort Bragg, and NC State University. He has worked for the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District for over 26 years.
Larry graduated from NC State University in Conservation of Natural Resources. He is a former board member of the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, and Food Runners Collaborative. He is a graduate of Leadership Triangle and currently serves on the Board of the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, a nonprofit that is dedicated to affirming and renewing the human/earth relationship based on the work of geologian and author Thomas Berry.
Larry is an avid vegetable gardener, enjoys the outdoors as well as cooking and photography.