Wildlife Commission Consolidates Staff, Moves to New Headquarters

[NCangler]

RALEIGH, N.C. (Oct. 3, 2005) — The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission recently moved into its new headquarters — a five-story, 73,000 square-foot building — on N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus.

The new “N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Administrative Headquarters and Centennial Campus Wildlife Education Center” is located at 1751 Varsity Drive. See map and driving directions to new headquarters building. (pdf)

E-mail addresses for Wildlife Commission employees moving into the new building have not changed, but new phone numbers are in effect:

Director’s Office: 919-707-0010
Wildlife Enforcement Office: 919-707-0030
Wildlife Management: 919-707-0050
Inland Fisheries: 919-707-0220
Education Center: 919-707-0201
Engineering Services: 919-707-0150
Conservation Education: 919-707-0170
Finance: 919-707-0080
Purchasing: 919-707-0070
Personnel: 919-707-0101
The new building gives the public “one-stop shopping” to purchase licenses, vessel registrations and Wild Store products or to obtain permits. Fisheries and wildlife biologists, engineers, enforcement officers and educators working in the building are accessible to the public as well.

The move unites 170 staff who had been working in four different locations in Wake County. Across the state, the Wildlife Commission employs a total of 622 people.