Greetings Wetland Supporters:
We hope you had an interesting Halloween. Which begs the question should we have a spooky wetland tour? If anyone has any ideas as to how this might be done or what it would consist of, we would love to hear your ideas.
Speaking of wetland tours, our 2023 Wetland Treasures of the Carolinas will be selected over the next few weeks. If you would like to nominate a wetland, please contact Program Coordinator, Molly Nifong. The wetlands must be located in North or South Carolina and be wetlands of ecological significance. The full criteria is available on our nominations webpage. We are looking to expand our wetland tours to different kinds of wetlands. If you have recommendations, please contact me at rick.savage@carolinawetlands.org. Your input and interest will help a lot in our planning. In the meantime, take a trip to a wetland and explore the fall beauty of most precious resource.
Rick Savage, Executive Director [Click here to read Rick's full message.]
The Carolina Wetlands Association is proud to release, Carolina Wetlands Past to Present, produced by our Science Committee. The purpose of this report is to present an overview of the state of an important but shrinking resource – wetlands in North and South Carolina. The report will establish a baseline – as a basis for seeing future trends in wetlands in the Carolinas – by addressing the following questions.
- How many wetlands do we have, what are their types, and where are they?
- How have past and current land-use practices affected our wetlands?
- What other threats/stressors to wetlands are there and how can we manage them?
- What is the current condition of our wetlands?
- How do we protect and manage this valuable resource through education, conservation, restoration, and other activities?
The report will be released later this month!
- Thanks to everyone who joined us for a paddling event on Robertson Millpond Nature Preserve - it was a good opportunity to appreciate the size and scale of the pond and the cypress trees. You could easily get lost if not for the numbered buoys keeping you on the trail.
- The next quarterly monitoring event will be December 3-4, 2022 and include water sampling, site photos and soils profile. Click here to Sign-up.
- No experience is needed but you must complete online training prior to joining the field monitoring. Contact Volunteer Coordinator, Patty Cervenka, for details.
