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Cultivating Habitat: 10+ Ways to Enhance Your Property for Pollinators
What are some practical ways you can enhance your property for pollinators? We’ve got you covered. “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty…
The Wide World of Pollinators – A Look at 5 of NC’s Lesser Known Pollinators
How well do you know North Carolina’s lesser known pollinators? “All nature seems at work … The bees are stirring–birds are on the wing … and I the while, the…
Birds, Butterflies, and Cedars – Millennium Forest and Atlantic White Cedar Project
Find out more about NC pollinators through NCWF’s March, 2024: March for Pollinators. NCWF, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coastal Program, is working to improve habitat…
Pollinators and Fine Art – Pamela Judson, NCWF Charlie Shaw Society Donor
Throughout March, NCWF is ushering in the colorful spring season by honoring March for Pollinators. While the monarch butterfly has garnered increased attention over the years for its vital pollinating…
Learn How to Protect Our Oceans: Registration Open for 2024 Ocean Advocacy Workshop (OAW)
The North Carolina Ocean Advocacy Workshop (OAW) is designed to teach participants how to be champions for oceans and the environment. Join us on March 22 – March 23, 2024…
A Wild World of Opportunity: Programs for landowners to fine-tune their properties for wildlife
This piece was featured in the Fall 2023 Edition of the NCWF Journal. The age-old adage holds true: if you build it, they will come. And given that more than…
An Animal Lover Attributes Some Wisdom to Taylor Swift – Sam Wright, NCWF Charlie Shaw Society Donor
Taylor Swift sings about invisible strings leading her path to love. As a self-professed Swiftie and animal lover, Sam Wright says it was those invisible strings, influencing her to make…
Digging in the Dirt: January Chapter Highlights 2024
North Carolina Wildlife Federation staff and Community Wildlife Chapter volunteers did a whole lot of birdhouse building, sign installing, native tree planting, litter sweeping, invasive removing, wildlife watching, nature walking…
A Bird’s Eye View – Catch a Live View of Lake Norman’s Famous Ospreys
Birds of prey – including ospreys – have a special power to catch the eye and interest of all who have the chance to spot them. Their graceful soaring, watchful…
Hope for a Species: NCWF’s Work Protecting and Conserving Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and Longleaf Pine Habitat
Wild songbirds and butterflies flitted amongst blades of native grasses blown by a southern breeze. Fox squirrels, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys passed silently among the ranks of longleaf pine…
