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Wildlife-Friendly Urban Spaces: 10 Ways to Secure Your Land, Gardens, and Trash for Wildlife

What does it mean to create a wildlife-friendly space for urban wildlife? Its easy to get caught up in our day-to-day rhythms and routines, especially in the places that are…

Protecting Our Old-Growth Legacy

Protecting Our Old Growth Legacy: NCWF and National Wildlife Federation endorse US Forest Service forest plan

This Op-Ed by NCWF VP of Conservation Policy Manley Fuller was distributed by the Asheville Citizen Times. “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a…

Aug 23-24, MARSH Great Southeast Pollinator Census: NCWF Marvin Area Chapter participated in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census by hosting a counting event at Marvin Efird Park. Folks showed up to count pollinators on Friday and Satruday with chapter leaders and NCWF Staff. The Great Southeast Pollinator Census is a community science project started by the University of Georgia. Participation in the project generates data about pollinators that can be used to inform research and improve conservation efforts. Participants also learned a thing or two about bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, and other insects!

Thanks to Our Volunteers! – August 2024 Community Wildlife Chapter Highlights

North Carolina Wildlife Federation staff and Community Wildlife Chapter volunteers came back full force from their annual summer breather. In August, NCWF did a whole lot of webinar hosting, pollinator…

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Ponds, Pines, and Pocosins – A Deep Dive into 5+ NC Ecological Communities and the Wildlife Within Them

North Carolina has many types of ecological communities, which produce subsequently varied ecosystems, perhaps too many to list here. They vary across region (mountains, piedmont, and coastal plain) . These…

Photo Credit: White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by Sujata Roy, prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea) by George Bissinger, barred owlets (Strix varia) by Dave Kiefer

Forest Dynamics – On Wildlife and Ecological Succession

Landscapes are ever-changing, constantly evolving under the influence of both natural and unnatural factors. Landscapes can change suddenly (as in the case of fires or flooding), or very slowly over…

Wetland communities contain complex ecosystem dynamics

“What is an ecosystem, anyway?” : How wildlife fits into ecological communities and drives ecosystem function

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left…The land is one organism. Its parts, like our own parts,…

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North Carolina Wildlife Federation’s APNEP Funded Engagement & Stewardship Projects

At the heart of APNEP’s Engagement and Stewardship Grant is a desire to foster watershed stewardship across the Albemarle-Pamlico region. Laura Frazier, the Refuge Conservation Coordinator with NCWF, says this is the overall goal of the upcoming project Experiencing the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary: Fostering Watershed Stewardship, for which she serves as project manager.

June 29th, CWS Circular Saturdays: NCWF Charlotte Wildlife Stewards Chapter participated in Circular Saturday at the Innovation Barn. Volunteers hosted an educational table with information about the Butterfly Highway program and how to get involved.  Participants got hands on with a flower dissection, learned about the science of pollination, and toured the pollinator gardens on site.

Thanks to Our Volunteers! – July 2024 Chapter Highlights

North Carolina Wildlife Federation staff and Community Wildlife Chapter volunteers took their annual summer breather. Despite a sleepy July, NCWF engaged 150 folks at the annual Eno River festival, did…

ecoEXPLORE Botany Basics, March 19.NCWF and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge partnered with the Tyrrell County Library to offer this month’s ecoEXPLORE Botany Badge program! ecoEXPLORERs 

Connecting Kids and Families to Wildlife in Northeastern North Carolina

In the Northeastern region of the state, the NCWF Wildlife Habitat Stewards of Northeastern NC Chapter works diligently year-round to provide opportunities to get people of all ages outside and…

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New Coastal Community Wildlife Habitat Benefits Wildlife and Neighborhoods

North Carolina is one of the most rapidly growing states in the country. Though there may be some benefits to such an increase, a surge in population numbers inevitably leads to heightened competition for resources…

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Wildlife Wonder: The Ins and Outs of Ethical Nature Photography

From full color to black-and-white, posed to candid, narrative to abstract, photographs have a unique ability to tell a story, kindle emotions, raise awareness, and even inspire action. Captured images…

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Natural Solutions: Creating Living Shorelines for Wildlife

Living shorelines are an effective and natural solution. A living shoreline is a protected, stabilized coastal edge made of natural elements including oyster shells, limestone, and native marsh grasses…