Thank you for visiting the North Carolina Wildlife Federation Chapter and Member networking site, now with over 500 members from across all of North Carolina. We invite you to look around and hope that you will join our efforts to protect, preserve and restore wildlife and their habitat across our great state. Please feel free to join the discussions about environmental and conservation issues, and post your favorite wildlife images. (We reserve the right to delete content deemed not appropriate for this site)

In response to the increasing interest in native plants and the environment, the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens has partnered with the NC Native Plant Society and the Habitat and Wildlife Keepers to offer a series of in-depth courses combining lecture and hands-on learning, leading to a Certificate in Native Plant Studies.

What can be gained from pursuing the Certificate?

* A solid foundation of knowledge and appreciation of the Piedmont flora and its ecology – for personal or professional benefit.
* Training in identification, plant selection, planning and maintenance of gardens and landscapes that primarily utilize native plants, and other specialized skills (depending on electives chosen).

Who should pursue a Certificate?
* Home gardeners
* Naturalists
* Habitat stewards
* Landscapers & land developers
* Environmentalists, conservationists
* Environmental educators

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The U.S. Navy is planning to construct and operate an undersea warfare training range off the coast of Georgia and Florida, just outside of federally-designated critical habitat and the only known calving grounds for the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale. The training range would be used for over 470 training exercises annually, with vessels and aircraft engaged in simulated warfare involving sonar and the deployment of exercise torpedoes, parachutes, and sonobuoys.

These exercises pose significant environmental risks to right whales and other species including potential ship strikes, exposure to disorienting sonar, and the risk of entanglement in discarded debris. The coast of NC is still listed as a possible alternative site for this range.

Along with eleven other national and regional organizations, NCWF (as the only NC organization) are challenging the Navy's proposed training range because the Navy has failed to conduct appropriate studies before authorizing the range, and because the Navy's plans pose a serious threat to the future of right whales and thus violate the Endangered Species Act.

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SEASONAL CALENDAR

Feb. 1: Spring peepers and upland chorus frogs begin calling.
Feb. 3: Spring waterfowl migrations begin.
Feb. 10: Gray squirrel litters are born.
Feb. 14: Woodcocks are breeding.
Feb. 16: Wood ducks are seeking nest sites. Rainbow trout are spawning
Feb. 28: American toads begin calling in the Piedmont. Pickerel frogs will soon begin breeding
Through Feb. 28: Rabbit and Quail season.