Springer’s Point Expands!
Final Parcel of Ocracoke’s Storied Springer’s Point is Now Protected NC Coastal Land Trust Expands Springer’s Point Preserve with the Purchase The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust announced that [...]
Welcome Sydney!
We welcome Sydney Gardner as our new Office Administrator! Sydney Gardner joined the Coastal Land Trust in August 2021. Sydney grew up in South Carolina. Childhood summers visiting her grandfather [...]
Hutaff Island Saved
LAST PRIVATELY-OWNED, UNDEVELOPED BARRIER ISLAND ON NC COAST IS NOW PROTECTED FOREVER The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust has purchased Hutaff Island, the last privately-owned undeveloped barrier [...]
Vast Floodplain Forest in Navassa Conserved
Coastal Land Trust Purchases Vast Floodplain Forest on the Cape Fear River in Navassa The Coastal Land Trust is pleased to announce the purchase of 1,048 acres along 3.5 [...]
Partnership rallies to conserve Hutaff Island
One of North Carolina’s Last Unprotected Barrier Islands to be Conserved Conservation groups, family landowners rally to conserve Hutaff Island Hutaff Island, one of North Carolina’s last privately owned [...]
Giving Bees and Butterflies a Hand
Giving Bees and Butterflies a Hand By Denise Patterson, reprinted with permission from Coastal Review Online (March 2015) [Ed. note: In celebration of PollinatorPalooza, April 12-17, 2021, we are [...]
Essays from Nature: #33 – Measuring Time
A Photo Series from NC photographer and naturalist Tom Earnhardt Measuring Time How do you measure a year? More importantly, how do you measure or [...]
BOLO: Swallow-tailed kites near you!
The historic range of Swallow-tailed kites once included much of the Southeast including NC and up the Mississippi River to as far north as Minnesota, and [...]
A FIRST for the Coastal Land Trust
On Friday February 26, 2021, the Coastal Land Trust transfered almost 183 acres of pine woodlands, pocosin wetlands, and bottomland hardwood forest to the US Forest Service - the [...]
Essays from Nature: #32 – When Swans Fly Over the Moon
A Photo Series from NC photographer and naturalist Tom Earnhardt When Swans Fly Over the Moon While fishing with my father near Cape Lookout on [...]