Triangle Land Conservancy: Member Spotlight, August 2006


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Member Spotlight - August 2006

*This is the first installment of a new monthly feature.
Stay tuned to our website each month to read about some of our
fantastic TLC members!

Amin Davis

Like many Triangle residents, Amin Davis first came to the Triangle for school. A native of Northfold, CT, Amin attended Hampton University in Virginia before completing a Master of Zoology at NC State in 1997. He currently lives in Cary and is an environmental scientist for MACTEC Engineering and Consulting.

In addition to being a TLC member, Amin has been an invaluable resource as a TLC volunteer. He currently serves as a site steward at Swift Creek Bluffs, and has manned TLC booths at the Eno River Festival and during Land Trust Day. He has put his technical skills to good use by teaching TLC's Conservation Strategies team how to use ArcView 3.2 (a GIS mapping program.) Amin also lent a bit of order to the TLC office by creating a list of resources for making maps, creating map templates for submitting Ecosystem Enhancement Applications, and organizing GIS files.

Amin first heard about TLC while in graduate school at NC State and remembers meeting our executive director, Kevin Brice, in a lab there. He states that TLC's focused grassroots mission of preserving vital natural areas and open space in the Triangle is what first attracted him to the organization.

"TLC shares a perspective I'd had throughout my whole life in regards to preserving and conserving vital natural areas and open space," Amin says. "One of TLC's biggest strengths, in my opinion, is that it realizes the importance of working through partnerships with relevant stakeholders at various levels (community, local, statewide) to maximize resources for working towards a common goal. I also appreciate how TLC has such a strong and active volunteer base and hosts various outings at their preserved sites.

"Lastly," Amin adds, "TLC's more recent commitment to preserving larger tracts of land along significant riparian corridors has proven to be an ecologically-wise strategy that has been paralleled by a similar focus in the planning branches of the environmental regulatory community such as the NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP)."

Amin fills his free time with many different interests. He enjoys playing tennis, ping-pong, basketball, ultimate frisbee, hiking, and "boogey-boarding". In addition, he is a novice digital DJ, and enjoys watching documentary films and performance arts shows. However, Amin states that "nothing beats the thrill for me of whitewater rafting down a raging river!"

Member Spotlight Archives

April 2008 - Jon Stucky

March 2008 - Ken & Roz Winter

February 2008 - Pearson Stewart

January 2008 - Don Stephenson

December 2007 - Amy Mackintosh & Tom Kagan

November 2007 - Lao Rubert & Steve Schewel

October 2007 - Andrea Reusing & Mac McCaughan

September 2007 - Gail and Tommy Bridges

August 2007 - Sarah & Chris Capel

July 2007 - Karen & Ben Barker

June 2007 - Adam Meyer