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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

NCWF's new Butterfly Highway heat map shows the dedication of pollinator lovers across North Carolina. Areas shaded in red represent the highest concentrations of registered pollinator pitstops.

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…

North Carolina Wildlife Federation's 2022 conservation scholarship winners.

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 flower is blooming this month. 

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 –…

N.C. Wildlife Federation opposes H.R. 8167, misguided legislation that would eliminate excise tax on firearms, ammunition and archery equipment distributed to state fish and wildlife agencies for on-the-ground wildlife conservation efforts.

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…

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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,…

North Carolina Wildlife Federation honored 19 conservation heroes at the 58th Annual Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards banquet on Sept. 10 in Cary.

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…

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Spotlight on Seven Species for National Wildlife Day, Sept. 4

National Wildlife Day is Sept. 4 “The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.” Theodore Roosevelt North Carolina is perhaps the most ecologically unique state…

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Digging in the Dirt: August 2022 Planting & Chapter Projects

August planting and chapter highlights North Carolina Wildlife Federation staff and Community Wildlife Chapter volunteers did a whole lot of wildlife watching,  moonlight paddling, trash collecting and pond exploring in August…