In 2019, construction of a living shoreline, featuring 100 feet using an oyster dome sill and 60 feet of oyster shell bag sills, was completed. The area was also planted with Spartina Alterniflora and Spartina Patens marsh grasses. This project restored approximately 0.2 acres of shoreline. The project began in 2018, and was completed in…
In 2016, construction of a 610 foot living shoreline at Carolina Beach State Park was completed. This living shoreline was constructed by creating an oyster bag sill with regular breaks for fish passage. This site was also planted landward with Spartina Alterniflora and Spartina Patens marsh grasses. The project began in 2015 and was completed…
The increased demand for freshwater in New Hanover, Pender, Brunswick and surrounding counties brings to the forefront the need to manage the use of this precious resource wisely.
Preserving Manns Harbor Access and Tradition
What’s it About One of our former northeast office interns, Daniel Salazar, is a busy man. In addition to attending school and working full time, he spent one day a week providing valuable outreach for the federation to Latinos. Daniel connected us with a youth group named Juntos. Juntos means “Together” in Spanish. The group…
The federal government reported in 2013 that about seven football fields of forested, coastal wetlands are lost every hour in the U.S. Lack of enforcement of existing wetland protection laws is a major cause for these unacceptable losses. The federation hopes to slow these losses by insisting that federal laws to protect these wetlands are…
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 and fisheries habitat. A point of land adjacent to Durant’s Point protects the entrance to Hatteras Harbor. This point of land was threatened by a…
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 Ocracoke Island. Building a new sill of bagged oyster shells along the eroding edge of the shoreline, maintaining the existing rip-rap structure and adding more…
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, and utility conveyance to its members. It has been the focus of wetland and hydrologic restoration efforts for the federation since 2003. In 2012, the…
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 park” of this resort town, this preserved 31-acre maritime forest is about one percent of the town and about all that’s left of its natural…
