NCWF Featured Events

Rooftop Pollinator Garden Workday (Raleigh)

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Pollinator Workday (Monroe)

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Retracing the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Holly Springs)

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Moth Night (Durham)

ecoEXPLORE Insect Encounters (Columbia)

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Badin Nature Tour (Badin)

Community Snorkel Adventure in the Watauga River (Sugar Grove)

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Smoky Mountains Wilderness Watch Chapter Meeting (Waynesville)

Calendar of Events

7:00 pm

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Bat Discovery Program (Swannanoa)

July 23, 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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News & Blog

Photo: Jason Walle, NCWF Photo Contest Submission

Heat of the Hunt: How Predators Hunt Their Prey

June 26, 2026

Photo: Chuck Traxler, USFWS

Hunters, Conservation, and the Making of America’s Wildlife Legacy

June 26, 2026

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Fox Creek Park: A Story of Restoration, Ecology, and Community

June 12, 2026

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Seeds Take Root: A Mid-Season Update on NCWF’s Butterfly Highway Seed Trials

June 11, 2026

May 16, Frosted Elfin Caterpillar Survey: NCWF Wildlife Habitat Stewards of Northeastern NC went out to Chowan Swamp Game Land to continue their support for frosted elfin monitoring efforts, but this time, they went out in search of bioluminescent elfin caterpillars. Black lights in hand, volunteers scanned the tops of the sundial lupine flowers, where the caterpillars are most often observed feeding, with hopes of seeing a glowing caterpillar on their host plant. No frosted elfin caterpillars were spotted, but volunteers enjoyed the evening sounds of birdsong from species like Eastern whip-poor-wills, summer tanagers, and Chuck-will ’s-widow–North America’s largest nightjar, that breeds in North Carolina’s coastal and piedmont oak and pine woodlands.

NCWF In The Field – May, 2026

May 29, 2026

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In Search of the Frosted Elfin: NCWF Volunteers Survey Rare Butterflies in Northeastern North Carolina

May 28, 2026

April 21, Frosted Elfin Survey: NCWF Wildlife Habitat Stewards of Northeastern NC Chapter continued their series of frosted elfin butterfly surveys, in search of these elusive and rare butterflies during their narrow flight window. During this survey, chapter volunteers worked to locate patches of Eastern wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria), the other local host plant for frosted elfins, only to find that the few recorded patches have yet to flower this year, making them behind their usual bloom window. Volunteers still enjoyed observing a variety of pollinators, like the pictured common buckeye, and a few orbweavers on lupine!

NCWF In The Field – April, 2026

May 6, 2026

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Holding Onto Hope: Celebrating NCWF’s 61st Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards

May 5, 2026

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A Dangerous Shift: Redefining “Harm” Puts Endangered Wildlife at Risk

April 28, 2026

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The Ritual of Stewardship – Dave Myers and NCWF Lake Norman Wildlife Chapter’s Work for Wildlife

April 2, 2026