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Conservation group urges Wake Forest to fund ‘natural areas’ program in CIP

Town of Wake Forest Board of Commissioners · September 16, 2025
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Summary

Wake Forest Conservation Alliance asked the Board to designate CIP money for a natural areas preservation division or program and offered volunteer and technical support to acquire and protect remaining forested parcels near the reservoir.

At the boardCIP public hearing, Angela DePaolo, representing the Wake Forest Conservation Alliance, urged the town to allocate capital-improvements funding to establish a natural areas preservation division or program that could identify and protect mature forest parcels and watersheds.

DePaolo described a 12-acre parcel with frontage on Oak Grove Church Road bordering the Wake Forest Reservoir and said the…

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