STUDENT-LED SYMPOSIUM
EXPERTS GATHER TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S WETLANDS AT STUDENT-LED SYMPOSIUM DURHAM, N.C. – More than 80 scientists, policy experts, students and conservation practitioners from around North Carolina gathered…
Stormwater Solutions in Cape Carteret
Two church ponds in Carteret County will soon become wetlands designed to improve the surrounding water quality. In the coming months, the ponds, which lie upstream of Deer Creek in…
Innovative Stormwater Wetland
For years, Shallowbag Bay has been deemed impaired by the U.S. EPA’s 303(d) water quality list and has been closed to shellfish harvest due to high bacterial levels. This was…
Volunteers help improve water quality and restore habitat at North River Wetland Preserve
Recently, several volunteers got their hands dirty in an effort to improve water quality and restore habitat at the North River Wetland Preserve. The volunteers, many who had never met…
Stopping the Loss of Forested Wetlands that Line our Coast
In 2013, the federation received phone calls from two Pamlico County residents, a farmer and a real estate agent, who raised alarms that wetlands were being cleared to be converted…