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Working on a 🌎 where you and nature can thrive. 🌳745,000 acres protected across North Carolina and counting. Get involved👇🏽
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Every voice helps shape the future of Nags Head Woods Preserve! 🐢
Have you visited our preserve? Take a few minutes to share your perspective and experience so we can continue to improve!
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06 Oct 2026
Bog turtle camouflage: 10/10
Dog’s nose: 11/10
“I can’t smell a bog turtle,” joked Southern Appalachians Program Coordinator Emilly Nolan. “Humans are visual creatures and limited in our ability to search specific habitats, but dogs rely heavily on their noses.”
Peat and two of her canine partners are helping biologists test whether a dog’s nose can help us find and protect Threatened bog turtles.
In North Carolina, there may be as few as 14 viable bog turtle populations, making every turtle and nest critical to conservation. To monitor population and habitat health, ARC and The Nature Conservancy work with partners and landowners to survey wetlands in our Southern Appalachian PARCAs (Priority Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Areas).
But traditional turtle searching isn’t as simple as walking through a wetland.
Aerial photography, habitat modeling, and trail cameras housed in buckets help our team pinpoint likely bog turtle habitats. Then, we spend hours probing long wooden dowels into the mud and reaching our hands into muddy burrows in hopes of finding turtles.
These methods are time consuming and rely heavily on people seeing or feeling turtles that have evolved to remain hidden.
So this season, three detection dogs and their handlers, Sarah and Arden, from the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Conservation Dogs Program, joined us in the field to train and collect turtle scent samples. If future years of canine turtle and nest searching are successful, it could improve survey results and better inform restoration efforts.
Protecting imperiled species starts with knowing where they are. For bog turtles, building resilient, connected populations may start with a determined dog following a scent through muddy wetlands.
Sniff out the full story in our recent blog post: ARCProtects.org/dogs
Link in bio.
Videos:
1. Bog turtle, Reese Sloan
2. Mikhaila Markham / TNC
3 & 4. Sophia Torres / TNC
#ARCProtects #BogTurtle #Turtles #Conservation #WildlifeConservation
01 Aug 2026
The team replanted the 600 Venus flytraps stolen from a TNC preserve near Boiling Spring Lakes in February.
Our staff at Wilmington got together to put these plants back in their native habitat to grow and thrive this spring. Venus flytraps are one of our state’s treasures, and it’s a felony to poach them👀.
We are happy that these plants are back where they belong 🙌🏽.
09 Apr 2024
Want to know what it's like to be a communications intern at our Nags Head Woods Preserve in the Outer Banks?
Follow along with Keegan as he spends a day with our coastal science team during a visit to an oyster reef restoration site to collect data. Along the way, he gained firsthand experience in the field and gathered footage and stories to help create educational videos that connect people with conservation work.
🔗 Dive into his experience.
09 Nov 2026
Keegan Shepard spent his summer internship exploring North Carolina’s changing coast! His primary goal was to document TNC’s reef restoration work and highlight the important role reefs play in protecting shorelines from coastal erosion. He interviewed our scientists, joined them in the field to collect data and got his hands dirty helping with restoration efforts. Thanks to Keegan’s hard work, we now have multiple educational videos that showcase this important conservation work.
🔗 Watch one of those videos and read more about his experience.
04 Nov 2026
Join the Carolina Wetlands Association on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a guided walk through the Green Swamp Preserve as we mark the 10-year anniversary of its designation as a Wetlands Treasure.
Choose from two hike times: 10 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today. 🔗 Tap the link in our bio!
02 Nov 2026
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Happy Halloween!🎃 👻
31 Oct 2026
Have you ever spotted a ghostly white flower like this?
Ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is one of the most unusual flowering plants in North America. Unlike nearly every plant around it, ghost pipe contains no chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize. Instead of making its own food from sunlight, it obtains nutrients through underground fungal networks connected to nearby trees.
Its striking white stems and single nodding flower give it an otherworldly appearance, especially in the deep shade of mature forests where it typically grows. As the flower ages, it turns upright to release seeds before eventually darkening to black.
If you encounter ghost pipe like this example found at our Nags Head Woods Preserve, enjoy it where it grows. These plants depend on delicate underground networks and do not survive being transplanted
30 Oct 2026
The Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program is a Department of Defense partnership program that brings together military installations, conservation organizations, and local communities to protect natural resources, preserve working lands, and ensure military training can continue without conflict from development, while protecting vital habitat. Today, the program has helped protect more than 1.4 million acres across the country.
And it all started in North Carolina. In the late 1990s when TNC helped bring conservationists and the Army together to find common ground and come up with crazy ideas that benefited people and nature.
🔗 Dive into this story.
29 Oct 2026
Have you shared your thoughts yet?
We're still gathering feedback from people to better understand how we can support meaningful connections with nature at Nags Head Woods Preserve.
The survey takes less than 10 minutes, and every response helps us learn! 🔗 Tap the link in our bio.
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27 Oct 2026
The future of longleaf pine conservation is built on partnership. This week, TNC is headed to the 16th Biennial Longleaf Conference held by @LongleafAlliance. We will join conservation leaders from Virginia to Texas working to strengthen collaboration across the longleaf pine range and to learn from each other. Together, we're restoring, connecting and protecting the forests that wildlife, communities and generations to come depend on.
26 Oct 2026
It’s our 75th birthday!😀 Thank you believing in The Nature Conservancy—and in the power of
working together to create a future where people and nature thrive for generations to come.
22 Oct 2026
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