Southeastern Trust for Parks and Land's Pollinator Project

The recipient of a master’s degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina, Samuel Brice Hall is an experienced financial services professional who has served as director of investor relations with Piedmont Private Equity in Atlanta, Georgia, since 2011. In addition to his professional pursuits, Samuel Brice Hall is a member of the Southeastern Trust for Parks and Land (STPAL).

Founded in 2012 as a means of creating new public parks, STPAL has since conserved and come into ownership of more than 10,000 acres of property spanning Southeast Georgia, Northwest North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee. In an effort to diversify the wildlife habitat of those lands, STPAL launched the Pollinator Project, which specifically works toward increasing the bee and butterfly population.

Pollinators like bees and butterflies are responsible for aiding the growth of more than 80 percent of Earth's flowering plants, yet they are suffering from rapid population decline due to the use of pesticides and the growth of commodity-crop farming as an alternative to prairies and natural fields. With the help of the University of Georgia's Odum Institute of Technology, STPAL has created pollinator gardens at more than a dozen STPAL properties as well as locations such as the Atlanta Girls School, North Cobb High School, and Camp Kiwanis.