NCWF Featured Events
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Fox Creek Workday & Celebration (Swannanoa)
Fox Creek Workday & Celebration (Swannanoa)
Join the Swannanoa Community Council and the North Carolina Wildlife Federation for a workday and celebration at Fox Creek Park. Hurricane Helene flooded Fox Creek with a torrent of muddy water and debris, and as the surge retreated the park was left with scattered trash, re-made stream beds, and a heavy deposit of silt covering…
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Wildlife Habitats: How to Certify Your Yard (Concord)
Wildlife Habitats: How to Certify Your Yard (Concord)
With increasing habitat loss and other dangers to local wildlife, now is an important time to understand how our actions can impact songbirds, pollinators, and everything in between. By offering food, water, cover, places for wildlife to raise young, and using sustainable strategies, we can make a long-lasting impact on the wildlife in our area.…
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Bradford Pear Bounty Tree Exchange (Elizabeth City)
Bradford Pear Bounty Tree Exchange (Elizabeth City)
The North Carolina Bradford Pear Bounty program is a collaboration between the NC Urban Forest Council, NC Wildlife Federation, the NC State Extension and NC Forest Service. Invasive species harm wildlife and ecosystems by crowding out and hindering the success of valuable native species. The program provides incentives for the removal of invasive Bradford pear…
Workday with Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill)
Workday with Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill)
Join NCWF Tri-County Conservationists Chapter and volunteers from The Chapel of the Cross for a workday in Chapel Hill! Volunteers will help spread native plant seeds, pick-up trash, and remove invasive plants from the Chapel Hill Community Center and the Bolin Creek Greenway. All are welcome! REGISTER HERE
Earth Day With Kids In Nature Day (Matthews)
Earth Day With Kids In Nature Day (Matthews)
Come out to Squirrel Lake Park and help us celebrate Earth Day with Kids In Nature Day. This event is presented by HAWK and Great Outdoors University. The day will be filled with eco-friendly exhibits and vendors, hikes and scavenger hunts, and nature crafts and STEM activities. Volunteers are needed to help with this FREE…
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I Like Turtles: Box Turtles and Beyond (Charlotte)
I Like Turtles: Box Turtles and Beyond (Charlotte)
Turtles play a crucial role in our world. This will be an interactive presentation as Katie Carpenter speaks on the importance of turtles, the impact development is having on them, wildlife rehab and how you can help support turtles in your area. Katie is a box turtle rehabber, registered veterinary technician and the executive director…
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Save Our Sounds: Take Action! (Charlotte)
Save Our Sounds: Take Action! (Charlotte)
North Carolina is the only state on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts that still allows large-scale inshore bottom shrimp trawling in our juvenile fish nurseries. For every 1 pound of shrimp caught, 4 pounds of valuable bycatch are discarded. Bottom trawls kill hundreds of millions of valuable fish and disrupt bottom habitats each year. Join…
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Let’s Explore the Beauty of Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve! (Cary)
Let’s Explore the Beauty of Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve! (Cary)
Join NCWF South Wake Conservationists Chapter for a nature walk at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve! Stroll with us on a casual nature walk to explore some of the Preserve’s botanical wonders. Led by Dr. Eric Pauley, we will explore the Preserve’s mixture of southern oak-pine forest, wide variety of wildflowers, and relic species of the…
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Spring Litter Sweep (Wingate)
Spring Litter Sweep (Wingate)
Who hasn’t seen plastic, styrofoam, and other garbage accumulated in our parks and along our streets and highways? Litter in the environment can harm wildlife through entanglement, suffocation, and even poisoning. Roadside litter attracts animals and increases the risk of wildlife injury due to vehicle collisions. Improper disposal of trash reduces water quality and harms…
Bradford Pear Bounty Tree Exchange (Hendersonville)
Bradford Pear Bounty Tree Exchange (Hendersonville)
The North Carolina Bradford Pear Bounty program is a collaboration between the NC Urban Forest Council, NC Wildlife Federation, the NC State Extension and NC Forest Service. Invasive species harm wildlife and ecosystems by crowding out and hindering the success of valuable native species. The program provides incentives for the removal of invasive Bradford pear…
North Fork Boat Clean Up (Creston)
North Fork Boat Clean Up (Creston)
Join New River Conservancy, MountainTrue and the North Carolina Wildlife Federation for a clean-up and debris removal at North Fork of the New River Ashe County. Trash and debris in waterways create a host of problems for wildlife including entanglement, ingestion, habitat contamination, and degraded water quality. Cleanup efforts are vital in keeping our waterways…
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Nature Walk and Invasive Removal at White Pines Preserve (Sanford)
Nature Walk and Invasive Removal at White Pines Preserve (Sanford)
Join NCWF Tri-County Conservationists Chapter for a nature walk and invasive plant removal event at White Pines Preserve in Chatham County! We will begin our afternoon together with a nature walk in the preserve, led by the property's Land Stewardship Manager. This guided walk will explore the park's incredible biodiversity and will be followed by…
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ecoEXPLORE Plant ID Walk & Litter Cleanup (Columbia)
ecoEXPLORE Plant ID Walk & Litter Cleanup (Columbia)
Join NCWF, Pocosin Lakes NWR, and Tyrrell County Library for an ecoEXPLORE outing where we’ll be identifying local plant species and cleaning up litter around Columbia. Participants will use their botany and pollinator knowledge from this badge season to identify the plants and pollinators around them while giving back to the community by removing harmful…
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Toad Abodes with Pocosin Arts (Columbia)
Toad Abodes with Pocosin Arts (Columbia)
Join NCWF, Pocosin Lakes NWR, and Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft for a family-friendly opportunity to create a clay toad abode for our backyard amphibian friends. Did you know that we have four native species of true toads in North Carolina? Come out to learn more about toads and how we can help protect…
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Introduction to Designing for Wildlife with Native Plants (Chesapeake, VA)
Introduction to Designing for Wildlife with Native Plants (Chesapeake, VA)
Join NCWF Wildlife Habitat Stewards of Northeastern NC Chapter and Trista Imrich, Landscape Designer and Owner of Wild Works of Whimsy/Southern Branch Nursery for an inspiring, beginner-friendly workshop exploring how to create a garden that nurtures our local wildlife through the use of native plants. Discover the benefits of native plants and their role in…
Earth Day (Raleigh)
Earth Day (Raleigh)
Join NCWF South Wake Conservationists Chapter to engage and educate the local community about wildlife and habitat at Earth Day! Earth Day and Arbor Day is a popular annual event put on by the City of Raleigh in partnership with We Plant it Forward. This event hosts a variety of earth-conscious vendors and organizations while…
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Operation Clean-Up Fair Bluff (Fair Bluff)
Operation Clean-Up Fair Bluff (Fair Bluff)
The Girl Scouts are hosting a clean-up at the Fair Bluff River Walk for a day of environmental stewardship. The first 50 registrants receive a free lunch! Enjoy BBQ, a Park Ranger presentation, and win prizes while making the earth a little cleaner. Register in person from 8:30-9:30 am; first 50 registrants receive a free…
Chapter Social + Invasive Plant Removal (Durham)
Chapter Social + Invasive Plant Removal (Durham)
NCWF Durham Wildlife Stewards Chapter is excited to support Keep Durham Beautiful by joining another workday to remove invasive plants from a city park. Right afterwards, we’re inviting everyone to join us at Lakewood Social on Chapel Hill Road. Come meet new friends, chat with our board members, and tell us your ideas for DWS…
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City Nature Challenge: Charlotte BioBlitz
City Nature Challenge: Charlotte BioBlitz
Join NCWF Charlotte Wildlife Stewards Chapter and Central Carolina Master Naturalists to participate in the City Nature Challenge. Using nets, bug jars, and other field equipment, we will photograph plants,…
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NC Bird Atlas Outing (Clyde)
NC Bird Atlas Outing (Clyde)
The NC Bird Atlas is a statewide community science project to map birds during the breeding and wintering seasons. The goal of the bird atlas is to help us understand the current and future distribution and abundance of our state’s birds. Having this detailed picture as a result of the atlas will be an incredibly…
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Cerulean Warbler & Avian Diversity Study
Cerulean Warbler & Avian Diversity Study
Join the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, National Parks Conservation Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, MountainTrue, and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission with support from the U.S. Forest Service to help with a cerulean warbler and avian diversity survey project focused on the last remaining patches of old-growth forests and maturing second-growth…
Creating a Backyard Grassland Habitat (Online)
Creating a Backyard Grassland Habitat (Online)
Amidst increasing public demand for alternatives to turf grass lawns, and a burgeoning awareness of the historic role grasslands and prairies have played in the ecological fabric of North Carolina, demand for large-scale herbaceous plantings is growing. However, information and precedents from regions north and west of the state (as well as Europe), where climate…
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NCWF’s 60th Annual Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards
The Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards honor individuals, associations, businesses and others who have exhibited an unwavering commitment to conservation in North Carolina. By recognizing, publicizing and honoring these conservation leaders – from professionals and volunteers to young conservationists and lifelong conservation heroes – the North Carolina Wildlife Federation hopes to inspire all North Carolinians to…
High Country Wild Kick-Off Event (Boone)
High Country Wild Kick-Off Event (Boone)
NCWF has a new Community Wildlife Chapter forming… High Country Wild! Join us as we get together to celebrate with a nature walk at Brookshire Park in Boone. The walk will begin on a peaceful and paved path that winds through wetland and meadow habitat along the South Fork of the New River. As we…
Pop Up Pot Up (Marvin)
Pop Up Pot Up (Marvin)
Habitat Builders plants a lot of trees and we have aspirations to plant a lot more. Because we are interested in supporting wildlife, we like to plant native trees, but native trees can be difficult to find. So we decided to create our own Mini Tree Farm. Drop in any time and help us pot…
NC Bird Atlas Outing (Clyde)
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