Carolina Wetlands Association Newsletter
Dear Friends,Wetlands are vital to North and South Carolina’s environment—filtering water, reducing floods, storing carbon, and supporting biodiversity. Yet, they’re rapidly disappearing due to development, pollution, and climate pressures.At the Carolina Wetlands Association, we’re committed to protecting these essential ecosystems. Through advocacy, education, restoration, and community engagement, we empower people to safeguard wetlands across the region.But we can’t do it without you. As a nonprofit with no guaranteed funding, we rely on your support to:
- Expand outreach and education
- Train volunteers for our monitoring program
- Respond quickly to threats
- Restore wetlands in vulnerable communities
Your donation makes a difference. It fuels clean water, climate resilience, and a healthier future. Together, we can protect the wetlands that protect us.Thank you for standing with us,Rick Savage, Executive DirectorEmail me
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Wetlands: Nature’s Climate Protectors
Climate change is driving hotter temperatures, stronger storms, rising seas, and more floods and droughts—and wetlands are a natural defense. Saltmarshes and peatlands store enormous amounts of carbon, but they’re at risk from development and sea-level rise. Protecting and restoring them in the Carolinas can help slow climate change. Learn more in the white paper developed by Ms. Heather Patti and the Science Committee.
Volunteer Appreciation Event
Please join us as we celebrate the real stars of our organization- YOU!
We've planned a fun-filled day of activities to recognize and reward the hard work our volunteers do to conserve and study wetlands. Our event will take place in Roxboro, NC. We hope you'll treat yourself and let us provide the fun! Past, current and future volunteers are welcome - we just ask that you RSVP to tell us you are coming.
Date: Sunday, October 12
Where: Roxboro, NC
Time: noon - 6:30pm
Details:
Noon - 2:30 pm: Living Shoreline paddle at Mayo Lake Park
3:00pm: Mixer at Black Creek Brewery (101 Depot St. Roxboro, NC 27573)
4:30 pm: Recognition of Site Leaders of the Wetland Monitoring Program
🎉 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Carolina Wetlands Association! We're proud of all we’ve accomplished together — and we’re excited to celebrate with you.
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025Location: Hi Wire Brewing Company, Durham, NCTime: 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Join us for a relaxed and festive evening with the Carolina Wetlands community! Enjoy local brews, connect with fellow supporters, and help us celebrate a decade of wetland conservation, education, and advocacy.
Whether you’ve been with us from the start or are just getting involved, we’d love to see you there!
Mapping the Future: How wetland mitigation banking balances conservation and progressMitigation banking is a practice that allows for the restoration, creation, or preservation of wetlands in one area to offset environmental impacts elsewhere. If the area qualifies as a wetland, it could be used to generate credits for mitigation projects, supporting ecosystem restoration and conservation efforts across the region. Learn more about the role of the US Army Corps of Engineers working in South Carolina to protect and restore wetlands.
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Agencies scramble to restore N.C.'s bogs
There are many kinds of peatlands, including tropical swamps in Congo, bogs in the Scottish Highlands and the pocosin wetlands of North Carolina, which are characterized by a thick blanket of evergreen shrubs. Learn how state, federal, and non-government agencies are working to restore and protect pocosins in the Carolinas.
Global wetlands loss strips trillions in economic benefitsMore than 20% of the world’s wetlands have vanished since 1970, according to a report by the Convention on Wetlands. The loss of wetlands, including freshwater and coastal marine systems, may equate to a $39 trillion loss in economic benefits by 2050.
[Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.]
October 1, 2025Program Committee Meeting
7:15 pm (virtual)
Would you like to be involved in wetlands education, hands-on stewardship projects, event planning and more? Meet with the program committee! Contact Chase if you'd like to be involved and/or attend the meeting.
October 12 2025Carolina Wetlands AssociationVolunteer Appreciation DayRoxboro, NCNoon: Living Shoreline Paddle at Mayo Lake Park3PM - 6PM: Mixer and Appreciation at Black Creek BreweryMore Information
October 23, 2025Volunteer Open House
Would you like to learn more about our organization and the many ways you could get involved? Join us for a virtual open house!Contact Chase for the link to join.
November 16, 2025Carolina Wetlands Association10th Anniversary Celebration
All are welcome to join the party!!
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors:
Kris Bass EngineeringJennings EnvironmentalNC Native Plant SocietySouth Carolina Mitigation AssociationWetland Solutions, LLC
