News Releases from Friends of Pocosin Lakes NWR

FriendsForwardFall_2008.pdf

Welcome! Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Columbia, N.C., formed not long after the Navy announced that it would no longer consider the refuge’s Pungo Unit for an Outlying Landing Field. The proposal had stirred controversy because the refuge is a winter home for tens of thousands of tundra swans and snow geese. Soon after the landing field ceased to be a concern, fire consumed more than 39,000 acres of the refuge, closing many areas of the refuge to the public until further notice.

Egrets will have a new advocate with the formation of the

Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina.

September 26, 2008 - The Nature Corner, by Ernie Marshall, GIVING BACK TO NATURE

September 18, 2008 - Washington Daily News, WHS students lend their talents to aid Pocosin Lakes wood ducks

July 7. 2008 - THE EVANS ROAD FIRE AT POCOSIN LAKES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

July 17, 2008 - The Nature Corner, by Ernie Marshall, A WINTER DAY - PUNGO LAKE

May 18, 2008 - THE NATURE CORNER, by Ernie Marshall, FRIENDS OF POCOSIN LAKES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: A HELPING HAND TO WILDLIFE

May 14, 2008 - Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge to host an open house for Endangered Species Day

Febuary 2009 - Real Friends

October 20, 2009 - Friends Focus: Friends of Pocosin Lakes NWR

January 15, 2010 - 2008 FIRE LEAVES REFUGE WITH HUGE FIRE DAMAGE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

January 24, 2010 - Friends of Pocosin Lakes to plant 3,000 seedlings

January 29, 2010 - A DAY BACK TO NATURE

January 2010 - Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Activities, January 2010

June 27, 2010 - It's not hard to understand why the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is featured in the latest State of the Coast Report. We were barely into our tour ...

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