The local advisory committees that help guide how the North Carolina Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve program manages its 10 sites are scheduled to meet in November.
The advisory committees made up of volunteers and representatives of community and government groups provide the Division of Coastal Management’s Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve staff with guidance and feedback regarding program activities and management of the reserve sites. The reserve program created in 1989 has preserved more than 44,000 acres of unique coastal environments at 10 sites along the coast.
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Schedule
- Zeke’s Island Reserve 10 a.m. Nov. 8, Fort Fisher Recreation Area, Kure Beach.
- Bald Head Woods Reserve 10 a.m. Nov. 12, Bald Head Island Conservancy.
- Permuda Island Reserve 10 a.m. Nov. 12 town of North Topsail Beach meeting room, 2008 Loggerhead Court.
- Buxton Woods Reserve 11 a.m. Nov. 12, Fessenden Center, Buxton.
- Rachel Carson Reserve 3 p.m. Nov. 12, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Beaufort Laboratory.
- Kitty Hawk Woods Reserve 1 p.m. Nov. 13, Kitty Hawk town hall, 101 Veterans Memorial Drive.
- Bird Island Reserve 10 a.m. Nov. 18, Sunset Beach town hall conference room.
- Currituck Banks Reserve 1 p.m. Nov. 18, Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education, Corolla.
- Emily & Richardson Preyer Buckridge Reserve 10 a.m. Nov. 19, Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge Main Office, 205 S. Ludington Drive, Columbia.
- Masonboro Island Reserve 1 p.m. Nov. 20, University of North Carolina Wilmington Center for Marine Science, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington.
The Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve Program is under the state Division of Coastal Management, which works to protect, conserve and manage North Carolina’s coastal resources in the 20 coastal counties, and is part of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
