The North Carolina Coastal Federation’s central region recently worked with 10 students from Keene State College. The students traveled 19 hours with heavy traffic from Keene, New Hampshire to spend the week doing service projects with our Ocean office staff. Throughout the week, the students assisted with a variety of habitat restoration and stormwater management…
The North Carolina Coastal Federation teamed up with fourth grade students from Bogue Sound Elementary School to create living shoreline models demonstrating their value to the coastal environment. Rachel Bisesi, federation coastal education coordinator, worked with students and art teacher Emily Wikoff to kick off the project and teach the eager students about the importance…
The North Carolina Coastal Federation hosted a number of Earth Day activities last week in each region. Although the federation celebrates our planet and our coast every day, a little extra celebration occurred during the weeks leading up to and following Earth Day. Northeast Region The Wanchese office celebrated Earth Day by participating in the…
For the past several months, the North Carolina Coastal Federation and the Duke University Marine Lab have been working with the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plain – Beaufort Teen Unit to educate them on the importance of keeping our coast clean. Each week, a representative from the federation or the Duke Marine…
In March 2019, the North Carolina Coastal Federation along with partners, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), North Carolina Sea Grant and commercial shellfish operations, wrapped up a two year-long project that removed almost 600,000 pounds of decades old mariculture operation debris from Carteret County waters. Volunteer groups with the federation, NOAA partners, and…
Every year, the North Carolina Coastal Federation hosts groups of college students during their spring break in our three offices. This March, groups from East Carolina University (ECU), Roanoke College, Ithaca College, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Meredith College spent their spring break making a difference on our coast. Wanchese Our Wanchese office hosted 17…
The North Carolina Coastal Federation hosted a series of land based cleanups along the coast this past weekend in conjunction with the kick off of the Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project, an effort to remove lost crab pots from North Carolina sounds. The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated funding to this project to facilitate and…
On Friday, Dec. 7, Backstreet Pub in Beaufort hosted NC Fest and invited the North Carolina Coastal Federation to attend and benefit from the event. The chill in the air that evening was quickly forgotten when pub employees dumped buckets of freshly roasted oysters on tables and attendees swarmed to grab an oyster before they all…
On Nov. 27, the North Carolina Coastal Federation hosted their second Living Shoreline Open House at the central office. The open house allowed waterfront homeowners to learn more about what they can do to prevent shoreline erosion and damage on their property. Several of the homeowners in attendance had experienced damage to their bulkhead after…