Special events held locally, including workdays, hikes, and other group activities.
Explore the fascinating world of frogs! Join NCWF South Wake Conservationists Chapter for an Eco Kids event about frogs. Experiment to learn more about the special characteristics that frogs share with all amphibians, and participate in activities that will help you discover what frogs need to survive. This event is open to all ages. Hop … More Eco Kids: All About Frogs
After a weather postponement, we are once again planning a beautification of the pollinator gardens at the Millbrook Environmental Connections Elementary School. Please join us at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 4 as we hope to outfox the weather! We will be weeding, removing dead growth and doing miscellaneous tasks to enhance the beautify of … More Let’s Try, Once More, to Beautify Millbrook Schools Gardens!
Please join us on Thursday, February 20th, as we pay a visit to an old friend! The folks at Millbrook Environmental Connections Magnet Elementary (Millbrook for short) are anxiously awaiting our arrival. We will be weeding, pruning and preparing the school’s pollinator gardens for spring. Please bring gloves, water, pruners and kneepads. Please do not … More CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER – Let’s Have Some Fun at Millbrook Elementary!
Love birds? Want to contribute to real scientific research? Join SWC on February 15th, 2025 from 9:00-11:00AM at Apex Community Park (2200 Laura Duncan Rd, Apex, NC 27523) for a leisurely birding walk and help us gather valuable data for local bird populations! We will meet in the playground/tennis court parking lot near the picnic … More 🐦 Join us for a Citizen Science Bird Walk🐦
Get outside this MLK Day of Service and help the City of Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Wetland Park eradicate invasive Japanese stiltgrass. Volunteers will be pulling, raking, and piling up invasive stiltgrass that grows wild in our moist, shady forests and trails. Stiltgrass forms thick mounds and thatches as it dies back and makes it really … More The Great MLK Day Family Stilt Grass Pull
Join South Wake Conservationists for an Eco Kids planting event! Hear from Crowder County Park’s environmental educator, Sarah Goldsmith, about the importance of (native) trees and shrubs in a lesson that will be fun and informative for adults and kids alike. Then, use your newfound knowledge to help us plant some trees in the park! … More Eco Kids Tree Planting
Join the South Wake Conservationists, a Community Wildlife Chapter of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, for a presentation on winter wildlife! Discover the fascinating wintering habits of local wildlife. Learn about the animals that migrate here for the winter (as well as the ones that stay!) and how you can host winter wildlife in your … More Backyard Winter Wildlife Presentation at Wake County East Regional Library
Chinese wisteria is an aggressive, invasive plant from China, first introduced as an ornamental plant here in the early 20th century. Like most invasives, it has now escaped into the natural habitats, literally strangling trees and dominating the ecosystem, to the detriment of local wildlife. One such critical infestation is found in trees next to … More Save the Trees! Volunteers Needed Sat. Nov. 16 to Cut Down Invasive Wisteria Vines.
Please join us on Saturday, December 7, 2024 as we have a fun and productive day at the Bass Lake Park Pollinator Garden! We will commence our activities at 10:00 a.m. and conclude at noon. We will be weeding and adding some plants! Please bring gloves, trowels, water and any tool conducive to weeding. The … More Let’s Spruce Up Bass Lake Park’s Pollinator Garden!
Please join us on November 20th at Yates Mill County Park as we remove some very aggressive invasive weeds. We recently helped to develop the garden in question, and it did not take long for the weeds to make their presence known! Our primary opponents will be ragweed and blackberries. The park will supply us … More Please Join Us As We Take On Invasive Plants at Yates Mill on Nov. 20th!
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