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Central Coast: Free Yoga Lessons Offered at Swansboro FundraiserGet a free yoga lesson on Saturday. July 31, at Second Wind, our new Business Friend on Main Street in Swansboro. The open house and fundraiser for the federation will begin at 9 a.m. All proceeds will be used to buy furnishings for the environmental education and restoration center we've started with Hammocks Beach State Park on Jones Island in the White Oak River. Southeast Coast: Fishermen Build Oyster Reefs in Middle SoundUsing money from the federation's federal economic-stimulus grant, commercial fishermen along the Southeast coast began building oyster reefs in Middle Sound in New Hanover County. The project pays the fishermen now to build the reefs and than in a few years helps provide them with a steady income. "It helps us in more ways than one," said fisherman Steven Galloway, 21. "It's work for now. It's good money. Then in a few years, we'll have more oysters. It's sort of win-win all the way around." Southeast Coast: Stormwater Polluting Lockwoods Folly RiverPolluted runoff is closing shellfish beds in the Lockwoods Folly River in Brunswick County, according to new study done by the N.C. Coastal Federation, the state and others. The report finds that bacteria entering the river with each rain must be reduced as much as 84 percent if the river is to once again meet state water standards for shellfishing... read more The study is now available for public comments. Comments will be accepted until Aug. 13. 2010 State of the Coast Report: Travel Guide With a Conscience
Federation Awarded Grant to Build Rains Gardens at SchoolsThe federation received a $20,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to build rain gardens to help control polluted runoff at three schools along the coast. The money was among the almost $1 million in grants that the agency and its partners in the Five Star Restoration Program gave to 37 water-quality and restoration projects around the country. The federation’s project was the only one funded in North Carolina...read more Navy Plans Meeting in Morehead City on Proposed Training, TestingThe Navy is preparing an environmental study on its plan to expand training, testing and research off the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. It will hold a public meeting on its plans and the study on Aug. 26 at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City. The meeting starts at 4 p.m. This is the only meeting scheduled in North Carolina. Sam's Nature Gallery
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Check our new State of the Coast Report while planning your vacation on the N.C. coast this summer. Whether you're spending a week on the Outer Banks, a few days at Holden Beach or time anywhere in between, you'll find the report full of interesting and unusual destinations all along our coast that don't appear in the traditional tourist guides. Listen for wolves in wild refuges that were saved from strip miners. Visit an uninhabited island in Stump Sound that the fishermen there fought to save from condominiums. Or become a "Kindred Spirit" on a secluded beach near Sunset Beach that is the result of a great conservation victory. The report features numerous places that people fought to save, along with other places that give you a taste of our coast's natural beauty and cultural heritage.
Piping plovers, an endangered shorebird, nest each spring and summer along the N.C. coast. They like sandflats and spits on barrier islands, gently sloped sand dunes with little vegetation and washover areas cut into or between dunes. These chicks found Bear Island to their liking. Sam Bland, who once patrolled the island as a ranger at Hammocks Beach State Park, took the photo and dozens more. You can see more of Sam's photos on our 
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