Tag: Walnut Creek Wetlands Center

Double Header at Walnut Creek Wetland Center! With two events within seven days SWC helped remove close to 800 pounds of trash with The Big Sweep on 9/5/26 and pulled approximately 2500 square feet of Japanese Hops on 9/13/26. Well done team!

September 16, 2026

The Big Sweep event was on 9/5/26. As usual Big Sweep does a great job getting volunteers and organizing teams, with plenty of bags, vests and pickers. During Walnut Creek Center’s Mud Day festival volunteers from Carolina Wetlands removed over 222 pounds so all effforts were to areas around the Raleigh Greenway. The weather was … More Double Header at Walnut Creek Wetland Center! With two events within seven days SWC helped remove close to 800 pounds of trash with The Big Sweep on 9/5/26 and pulled approximately 2500 square feet of Japanese Hops on 9/13/26. Well done team!

Second weekend at Walnut Creek Wetlands Center!  On September 13, 2026, we will be removing invasives from 9:00am to 11:00am

September 2, 2026

As a low-lying wetland, this site absorbs all the invasive seeds flowing from the Walnut Creek water shed, a significant area of Raleigh and Wake County.  Normally, we would be restoring a high ground section with native cane, but at this time construction of an improvement to the park is preventing this work. This will … More Second weekend at Walnut Creek Wetlands Center!  On September 13, 2026, we will be removing invasives from 9:00am to 11:00am

Let’s help Wake County Big Sweep clean up around the Walnut Creek Wetland Center on Sat., 9/5/26 from 9:00am to 12:00am – 950 Peterson St. in Raleigh, NC.

August 27, 2026

The Wetland Center is located at a low spot-on Walnut Creek near downtown Raleigh.  It acts as a filter for all trash and debris flowing from its head waters near the Fairgrounds, past apartments, developments, dams and NC State University and accumulates a substantial amount of trash. Also, the City of Raleigh once used this … More Let’s help Wake County Big Sweep clean up around the Walnut Creek Wetland Center on Sat., 9/5/26 from 9:00am to 12:00am – 950 Peterson St. in Raleigh, NC.

Switch Cane Restoration – 3rd Time’s the Charm!

March 20, 2026

After delays due to freezing weather and a sick snake, our eager team of South Wake Conservationists, and volunteers from the NC State Dept. of Environmental Quality, were able to remove a canopy of mostly invasive plants to allow sun to shine on what we now know is native switch cane. The additional chlorophyll will … More Switch Cane Restoration – 3rd Time’s the Charm!

River Cane Restoration Jan. 24th – CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

January 9, 2026

TO BE RESCHEDULED SWC is assisting Raleigh Parks with the restoration of river cane along the banks of Walnut Creek, where it flows through the Walnut Creek Wetland Park. This will help endangered wildlife, control erosion, and improve water quality.   Rivercane (genus Arundinaria), a native bamboo, is a woody grass native to floodplains of the … More River Cane Restoration Jan. 24th – CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

A Good Day at Mud Day

August 17, 2025

SWC volunteers enjoyed being part of the City of Raleigh’s annual Mud Day at Walnut Creek Wetlands Center again this year. Always a fun event, when the kids (and even some parents) arrived at our exhibit, many were proudly covered in good ‘ol North Carolina red-clay mud! Keeping with the wetland theme, we had a … More A Good Day at Mud Day