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Watch Out for Wildlife: 6 Tips to Reduce Deer-Vehicle Collisions
We’re coming up on that time of the year — when daylight savings ends, days are shorter, and deer behavior and movement patterns change due to mating. Here are some…

Leave the Leaves: Embracing Beautiful Messes in Nature Benefits Wildlife
Let’s leave the leaves this fall Guest blog by Matt Lotti, a lifelong fisherman, backpacker, gardener, native plant enthusiast and all-around nature lover who lives in Clayton. With the onset…

Digging in the Dirt: September Planting & Chapter Highlights
September planting and chapter highlights Conservation Coordinator Luke Bennett and Director of Conservation Partnerships Tara Moore share updates below. Thanks to Duke Energy Foundation for helping make habitat restoration projects…

Wildlife Policy & Conservation Actions Focus of NCWF Annual Meeting
Wildlife policy and actions to conserve wildlife species and habitats were the focus of North Carolina Wildlife Federation’s annual meeting on Sept. 10, 2022, in Cary. Manley Fuller, NCWF’s vice…

Butterfly Highway Pollinator Pitstops Heating Up Across North Carolina
Pollinator Pitstops & Butterfly Highway Network Update from Luke Bennett, NCWF conservation coordinator North Carolina Wildlife Federation has been working on new tools to celebrate and promote your hard work…

The Future of Conservation: Get to Know NCWF’s 2022 Scholarship Recipients
Environmental law and migratory birds, red wolves, entomology, freshwater fisheries and habitat, public lands, ornithology and marine fisheries. The fields of study of this year’s North Carolina Wildlife Federation scholarship…

October Calendar of Wildlife & Habitat Happenings
October Calendar Opportunities to experience natural North Carolina are as diverse as our state’s spectacular landscape. And there’s no shortage of things to do, see and hear this month –…

NCWF Joins Fight Against Misguided Legislation to Eliminate Sporting Excise Tax
North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in partnership with National Wildlife Federation and dozens of affiliate organizations, submitted a letter opposing H.R. 8167 – RETURN Our Constitutional Rights Act 2022. “This misguided…

What Chronic Wasting Disease Means for NC Deer and Hunters
It’s Here: Chronic Wasting Disease has been detected in North Carolina. Here’s what that means for deer—and for deer hunters. Article written by Robert D. Brown, Ph.D. and Liz Rutledge,…

Must See & Read: Conservation Achievement Awards Banquet Highlights
Awards Banquet Highlights *Scroll to end for awards banquet photo gallery* Conservation works, but it takes work to turn issues understanding into stewardship and stewardship into meaningful action. And the 58th…