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!
June 29th Event Postponed – New Date TBA Given excessive heat plus holiday week schedules, this Eco Kids event is being postponed to a late date. Please watch for a new announcement, once re-scheduled. Thanks for your understanding! Beat the heat with a cool discovery walk in the woods along a stream to find all … More Eco Kids: Animal Signs Discovery Walk!
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
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!
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
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
We need some habitat volunteers next Saturday! The native plant garden at Bass Lake Park is definitely in need of some TLC (weeding), so let’s keep our demonstration garden in good shape. In addition, we are going to plant some aquatic plants along the shore of Bass Lake, which will be a good way to … More Plant Aquatic Plants and Help Weed the Native Plants Garden at Bass Lake
SWC welcomed our good friend Sarah Goldsmith, Lead Educator at Crowder County Park, to share amazing stories at our quarterly meeting last evening about how animals of all kinds are able to build amazing structures without an engineering degree! We had a full house at Bass Lake Park, with 32 people in person and an … More Nature’s Engineers are Popular!
The registration form is having technical issues and may display that the event is full, when it is not. If you can come in person, just come and don’t worry about the registration. This is a fun event, and we hope to see you there! Did you know, beavers aren’t nature’s only engineers! Join NCWF … More Nature’s Engineers – Come in Person to Bass Lake Park – no need to register
Approximately fifty people of all ages, some coming from as far away as Chapel Hill and Dunn, joined SWC to learn about the fascinating biology and habits of chimney swifts, as they gathered to roost in the nearly-100-year-old chimney at the old Fuquay Varina Middle School. This nightly spectacle is fun to watch and provides … More An Evening with the Chimney Swifts
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