Living Shorelines Education Program
Students and volunteers help us build and monitor living shorelines up and down the coast. These projects allow students to connect with nature while participating in hands-on restoration efforts. Groups learn about why living shorelines are important as well as what types of creatures call them home. Living Shorelines 101 Living shorelines are a method…
Teaching the Teachers
Our educators occasionally conduct professional development trainings for formal K-12 classroom teachers. Public school teacher training programs serve as opportunities for enriched learning and reinforcement of crucial lessons. The Coastal Federation’s educators are experts in teaching about watersheds and the importance of the estuary through hands-on techniques. Working jointly with is the N.C. Center for…
Water Summit
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.
Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project
Every year, crab pots and other fishing gear are lost in our sounds. The federation and local partners work every year to remove these pots, which are hazardous to boats and marine life. Since 2014, the federation has led the Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project in an effort to remove lost crab pots from North…
EarthWise Farm
EarthWise, as it’s called, started with a seed — first planted in the imagination of an old man and then in the soil by his children. The North Carolina Coastal Federation’s small community farm that then sprouted is at the end of a dirt road, near Bogue Sound in Carteret County. People come down the…
Manns Harbor – Preserving Access and Tradition
Preserving Manns Harbor Access and Tradition
Juntos
What's it AboutField Trip Our intern in the northeast, Daniel Salazar, is a busy man. In addition to attending school and working for Willy Phillips at Full Circle Crab Co, he spends one day a week providing valuable outreach for the federation to Latinos. Daniel has connected us with a youth group named Juntos. Juntos…
Sunset Beach
Island Residents Question Development Proposed for the Former Site of Mad Inlet Updates In 2018, the state budget appropriated $2.5 million to purchase the 35-acre tract of land for preservation. The property must first be appraised. It is unclear when the state plans to buy the land, but if the offer is accepted, the land…
Stopping the Loss of Forested Wetlands that Line our Coast
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…