Please join us on Monday, March 14 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Yates Mill County Park for a pollinator garden workday! This will be the first in a series of events as we team with Yates Mill officials to enhance and expand their pollinator gardens. We will be removing dead plant material, amending … More Please Join Us for a Pollinator Garden Event at Yates Mill County Park!
The early 1970’s is known as a time of conservation and environmental legislation. It included creation of the Endangered Species and Marine Mammal Protection Acts. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency was created. Join us on Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. as Manley Fuller, North Carolina Wildlife Federation’s (NCWF) Vice-President of Conservation Policy … More An Exciting Time for Wildlife Legislation!
South Wake Conservationists is very proud that their nominee won the 2021 NCWF ‘s Governor’s Conservationist Achievement Award for Business Conservationist of the Year. Owner Basil Camu and his company Leaf and Limb in Raleigh broke the mold when they shifted focus from tree removal to tree preservation and habitat restoration through plantings, healing the … More SWC’s Nominee Accepts Business Conservationist of Year Award
South Wake Conservationists’ (SWC) volunteers have planted three native pollinator gardens this last Spring in the Triangle area – Lincoln Heights Elementary School, Fuquay-Varina, NC; Millbrook Elementary School, Raleigh, NC and at the Big Lake in William B. Unstead State Park, Raleigh, NC. Join SWC to help keep the native plants thriving to provide the … More Pollinator Garden Workdays
For exemplary efforts during the past two years despite setbacks by COVID-19, Lincoln Heights Environmental Connections Magnet Elementary School in Fuquay-Varina, NC has earned the “Watershed Stewardship School Award” from their local Wake Soil and Water Conservation District. South Wake Conservationists, a chapter of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, along with other community partners, worked … More Lincoln Heights Elementary Earns Award
Join NCWF and the South Wake Conservationists chapter for a trash cleanup in and around Lake Raleigh on Saturday, 5/1/21, 9 am – 12 pm. Lake Raleigh is located on NC State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh. Directions to the boat ramp, where we’ll meet, are to take Centennial Parkway to Achievement Dr. then turn right … More Lake Raleigh Cleanup (postponed to Saturday, May 1)
In an increasingly urbanized world, the creation of wildlife corridors have become essential in protecting and benefitting both humans and wildlife. The creation of these corridors has become a world-wide occurrence, as countries have recognized the the necessity of protecting dwindling wildlife populations. In additions, these corridors have many human benefits, most notably a reduction … More Join Us on June 10, 2021 to Learn About the Increasing Importance of Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity!
Adults from across North Carolina might join the New Hill Hunter Education and Mentoring Program each February to simply launch their hunting careers, but they quickly learn that hunting is about so much more than the harvest. Developed by a group of seasoned hunting education volunteer instructors in 2019 on Duke Energy property in New … More A Successful Hunter Must First Understand Conservation
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