Dale Threatt-Taylor is the Director of the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District and Wake County’s Soil and Water Conservation Department. She received a Bachelor of Science in Conservation from NC State University in 1991 and a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University in 2011.

In 2012, she was selected as one of 30 agriculturalists in North Carolina identified to participate in the two-year Agricultural Leadership Development Program at NC State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her daily goal is to make sure that Soil and Water Conservation is the most effective department in Wake County Government, helping both land and landowner. Dale’s long range goal is that Wake will be best District in the nation.

Dale, who is a Leadership Triangle Goodman Fellow, is engaged in service at the state, regional, county, and municipal levels. She currently serves on the  Conservation Trust for North Carolina Board of Directors and serves as the Chair of its Diversity Committee. She will begin her term as President of the Soil and Water Conservation Society Hugh Hammond Bennett (NC) Chapter in June 2015. Dale is the Vice-Chair of the City of Oaks Foundation Board of Trustees. In January 2015, she was re-elected President of the Wake County Agribusiness Council.

Dale wants everyone in the city, county, state and nation to understand that locally-led conservation begins with an individual, and that our conservation work matters.