Planting Design for Wildlife

July 15, 2025

Join NCWF South Wake Conservationists Chapter for a webinar exploring how intentional planting design can support wildlife while meeting human needs. Presented by registered landscape architect Sara Donohoe, this webinar focuses on integrating ecological function into planting design through creative and practical strategies. With expertise in native and habitat-based planting design, Sara will demonstrate how … More Planting Design for Wildlife

Community Partnerships at Work!

June 30, 2025

On Saturday morning, SWC joined Middle Creek High School-based South Wake Area Native Ecosystems Conservation, SWANEC, and the Town of Apex Environmental Programs Coordinator to tackle removing invasives from Apex Community Park. Last month, SWANEC joined the SWC cleanup at Walnut Creek Wetland Park, and this week it was our turn to join theirs! There was a great … More Community Partnerships at Work!

Tell Your Legislators to Protect our Sounds & Estuaries – Pass House Bill 422

June 24, 2025

Large-scale bottom trawling is strip-mining our sounds and estuaries. The evidence is right here in this video—nets that should be full of shrimp are instead packed with dying bycatch. This isn’t sustainable fishing. It’s environmental destruction that is causing fisheries to collapse in North Carolina. House Bill 442 offers a solution. By prohibiting destructive large-scale … More Tell Your Legislators to Protect our Sounds & Estuaries – Pass House Bill 422

Let’s Help SWANEC Tackle those Invasives at Apex Community Park!

June 19, 2025

South Wake Area Native Ecosystems Conservation, SWANEC,  a passionate group of local high school students committed to “eliminating invasive plant species in Southern Wake County and to support the stabilization of native plant populations,” have invited us to assist them in removing invasives from Apex Community Park. These students did a yeoman’s job for us removing trash … More Let’s Help SWANEC Tackle those Invasives at Apex Community Park!

Add Your Voice to Support Passing NC House Bill to Prohibit Inshore Bottom Trawling

June 18, 2025

This week, the General Assembly is voting to prohibit large-scale, inshore bottom shrimp trawling in North Carolina. We need your help advocating for the passage of HB442. In its current form, this legislation will prohibit large-scale, inshore shrimp trawling in our juvenile fish nurseries. We are the only state that allows this anymore! To send a … More Add Your Voice to Support Passing NC House Bill to Prohibit Inshore Bottom Trawling

A Day at the Lake

June 14, 2025

Today was a double-header, clearing out the weeds that had taken over our native plant garden by the Bass Lake Park picnic shelter and planting aquatic plants along the shore of Bass Lake. What a great turnout and great teamwork to get it all done this morning! The weeding crew did a full court press … More A Day at the Lake

Exciting New Programs Offered by Dix Park Conservancy

June 13, 2025

There are some cool programs coming up this summer at Dix Park in Raleigh, hosted by the Dix Park Conservancy and its Artist in Residence, Preston Montague. As many of you know, Preston led presentations and activities at two local NCWF Habitat Steward Workshops this year and has also been a featured speaker for one … More Exciting New Programs Offered by Dix Park Conservancy