Ours is a breathtaking, water-loving land, and the glories one finds in these wild redoubts are many. The federation’s new travel guide beckons you to ramble afoot, afloat, afield to coastal spots both accessible and off the trodden track.
North Carolina Coastal Federation
Special Places, Special People
Our new annual publication, “Our Coast,” celebrates places along the coast that you can visit this summer that thousands of people fought long and hard to protect.
North River Farms: Making the Land Work Again
The N.C. Coastal Federation and a dizzying array of partners are restoring wetlands on thousands of acres of ditched and drained farm land in eastern Carteret County.
30 Years of Protecting the Coast
The N.C. Coastal Federation marks its 30th anniversary this year with a documentary that celebrates the ordinary people who saved extraordinary places.
Proposed Peat Mining Lands Become Wild Refuges
Without herculean efforts on the part of the N.C. Coastal Federation, other groups and many local people, much of the Albemarle-Pamlico region would have become a coastal strip mine. Instead, that land is now protected as some of the wildest refuges in eastern North America





