Living Shorelines | North Carolina Coastal Federation Working Together for a Healthy Coast Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:47:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.nccoast.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-NCCF-logo-Crop-512px-32x32.png Living Shorelines | North Carolina Coastal Federation 32 32 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Living Shoreline https://www.nccoast.org/project/marine-corps-air-station-cherry-point-living-shoreline/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:15:29 +0000 https://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=47687 The failure of several bulkheads along the Neuse River led MCAS Cherry Point to implement living shorelines rather than these hardened structures to stabilize the shoreline, reduce erosion, and provide crucial habitat.

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]]> NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores Living Shoreline https://www.nccoast.org/project/nc-aquarium-at-pine-knoll-shores-living-shoreline/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:35:07 +0000 https://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=47644 In 2024, the Coastal Federation along with construction partners and the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores constructed a 4,214ft living shoreline focusing on high erosion areas identified by project team members: NC Aquarium at PKS staff, NC Parks staff, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Beaufort Laboratory and East Carolina University, and Native Shorelines. 

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]]> Fort Macon State Park Living Shoreline https://www.nccoast.org/project/fort-macon-state-park-living-shoreline/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:03:29 +0000 https://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=46885 Fort Macon State Park's northern soundside portion of the park has faced extreme erosion, in order to combat that the Park and the Federation have created a granite sill living shoreline.

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]]> Black Duck Island Living Shoreline https://www.nccoast.org/project/black-duck-island-living-shoreline/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:12:13 +0000 https://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=46871 Black Duck Island is a remote 68-acre dredge spoil island that is dealing with severe erosion. To help stop this a living shoreline is being installed.

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]]> Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve https://www.nccoast.org/project/morris-landing/ Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:52:55 +0000 http://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=10645 The 52-acre Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve contains coastal shrub scrub and forest habitat, salt marsh, and tidal creek areas and has over 3,000 feet of shoreline along Stump Sound.…

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]]> Beacon Island Shoreline Restoration https://www.nccoast.org/project/beacon-island/ Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:05:53 +0000 http://www.nccoast.org/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=5918 Creating Oyster Habitat While Saving the Brown Pelicans’ Home Beacon Island in Pamlico Sound is one of only nine remaining nesting sites for brown pelicans in North Carolina. In 2014,…

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