Durant’s Point Living Shoreline
Durant’s Point forms an extensive marsh on the west side of Hatteras Village, providing a natural buffer for the village — dissipating storm and wave energy — while protecting water quality…
Durant’s Point forms an extensive marsh on the west side of Hatteras Village, providing a natural buffer for the village — dissipating storm and wave energy — while protecting water quality…
Brunswick County Habitat for Humanity In 2015, the federation worked with Brunswick County Habitat for Humanity to install low-impact development techniques in its homes. Habitat for Humanity also partnered with…
Beacon Island in Pamlico Sound is one of only nine remaining nesting sites for brown pelicans in North Carolina. In 2014, the remote 7.5-acre island, owned by Audubon North Carolina,…
Beginning in 2012, the North Carolina Coastal Federation partnered with the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust to restore a portion of the shoreline at the Springer’s Point Nature Preserve on…
Atlantic White Cedar Restoration on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula A young Atlantic white-cedar planting at one of our restoration sites. The Coastal Federation facilitated the restoration of Atlantic white-cedar, also known…
Mattamuskeet Association The Mattamuskeet Association is a 42,500-acre (approximately 64 square miles) private non-profit association of landowners in Hyde County. Its mission is to provide drainage, flood control, maintained access,…
What’s all the fuss about a little rain? When rain falls on hard surfaces such as parking lots, roads and rooftops it is not absorbed into the ground. Instead this…
The Fight that Stopped Titan Cement An extraordinary campaign won by everyday kind of people On March 10, 2016 a victory dance was held in New Hanover County, North Carolina.…
Student and teachers are visiting the Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center in Wrightsville Beach in increasing numbers. Since the federation’s education center opened on May 3, 2014 a variety of public education programs and events have drawn the public in to learn about the coastal environment.
Photo by Sam Bland Step back in time when you visit the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s Hoop Pole Creek preserve in the middle of Atlantic Beach. Known as the “central…