A Season of Thanks and Thank Yous
A federation educator find a lot to be thankful for during this Thanksgiving season.
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Fall Birding Cruises Take Flight
Our autumn birding cruises are in full swing this season at Hammocks Beach State Park. Fall marks the time of year when many coastal birds are migrating south for the winter. Aboard the cruise, local birding expert Jo Anne Powell teaches passengers about this migration and about the birds they see while meandering through estuaries…
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Coastal Energy Summit Misses the Mark
N.C. Coastal Federation advocate Mike Giles critiques North Carolina’s first summit on offshore energy development.
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Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center
Student and teachers are visiting the Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center in Wrightsville Beach in increasing numbers. Since the federation’s education center opened on May 3, 2014 a variety of public education programs and events have drawn the public in to learn about the coastal environment.
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Squid Dissection at the Education Center in Wrightsville Beach
The N.C. Coastal Federation is now hosting in-house environmental education programming including stormwater presentations and squid dissections at the new Fred and Alice Stanback Education Center in Wrightsville Beach. Here we see a home school group from Wilmington in the middle of a squid dissection. We love the opportunity for students to share in these…
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High School Students Lend a Helping Hand
This autumn several high school students are assisting with restoration and education projects along our central coast. The federation is privileged to have volunteers from Croatan High in Carteret County, Havelock High in Craven County, and the Timber Ridge Treatment Center in Gold Hill, NC. Together, we are protecting coastal lands and waters. On a…
DetailsN.C. Coast Lost a Good, Caring Friend
Jack Cleaves, who died last last month, could always be depended on to lend a hand to help the federation and our coast.
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Our Coast’s Food: Muscadines
Clerks at snooty wine shops may turn up their noses at the notion, but our food writer celebrates North Carolina’s native grape.
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Cruise the Coast
The federation hosted its inaugural “Cruise for the Coast” to celebrate National Estuaries Day on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Thanks to a beautiful day, we were able to fully appreciate the beauty of our coast and how our work helps to keep it that way. The event helped raise much-needed funds for our hands-on education…
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2014 Pelican Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award Marc Basnight Marc Basnight, whose roots reach back more than three centuries in Dare County, is the best champion the N.C. coast ever had. Yes, we didn’t always see eye-to-eye on all issues. In the final analysis, however, there is no doubt that he made the coast a much better place because…
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Cycling for the Coast Celebration 2014
The 4th Annual Cycling for the Coast fundraiser took place on Saturday, September 13. Over 150 people of all ages and cycling experience came out to celebrate our coast by riding along the beautiful island of Bogue Banks. Though the weather forecast was sketchy, storm clouds faded just in time to provide a warm and…
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The Wilmington Historic Foundation has recognized the federation’s restored office and education center in Wrightsville Beach.
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Speaker Series: A Bird’s Eye View of North Carolina’s Coast
Walker Golder of Audubon North Carolina will launch the federation’s Coastal Speaker Series at its newly opened Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center.
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Offshore Fishing Trip Planned on Miss Hatteras
Fish for a good cause on Sat., Oct. 4, aboard the Miss Hatteras. Proceeds from the fishing trip will support the federation’s education and restoration programs.
DetailsAuthors Will Talk About a Serious Walk Along the Beach
Authors Peter and Cathy Meyer will talk about their walk along the length of the N.C. coast.
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Get Those Autumn Native Plants at Our Sale
Autumn is the ideal time for planting shrubs and trees, and the federation is helping gardeners out by offering a fall plant sale.
DetailsOur Coast’s Food: Dining Over the Century
Dining culture at Wrightsville Beach wasn’t always flip flops and ice-cold white wine. Our food columnist tells how it’s changed over the last 100 years.
DetailsWe’re Giving Bald Head a Pass
The federation isn’t going to formally object to a terminal groin on Bald Head Island because there’s not much habitat there left to protect.
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Meet the Summer Interns
This is the first summer that the N.C. Coastal Federation’s office in Wrightsville Beach has had the space to host five interns. Find out what they’re doing.
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Back in the Classrooms
With the start of a new school year, the federation is back at work leading outreach lessons and activities in local classrooms. The federation has many longstanding partnerships in these school systems, sometimes working with the same teachers for five years or more. This means that even though the seats are now filled with a…
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Our Coast’s Food: Chicken-Necking
A good crab boil starts with a chicken-necker. That’s someone who uses a dip net, a piece of string, a fishing weight and a chicken neck to catch blue crabs. We tell you how.
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Getting Up Close and Personal with a Cyclops
When a caterpillar of the Polyphemus moth wove its cocoon outside his door, Sam Bland naturally broke out his camera.
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An ill-conceived effort to build a terminal groin on a spit of land in Rich Inlet should be abandoned in favor of a more environmentally friendly alternative.
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The Federation Continues the Fight Against Titan
Stop Titan Update–January 2015 The Problem: Titan America wants to build one of the largest cement manufacturing and strip mine facilities in the nation on the shores of the Northeast Cape Fear River, a resource of national importance. If they succeed, it will be one of the largest sources of air pollution in our area…
DetailsBirding Trips Planned This Spring Along White Oak
Spring is a great time of year to see some of the magnificent birds that fly along the N.C. coast. Join the N.C. Coastal Federation for birding cruises on the White Oak River.
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