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Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
The Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is a non-profit Friends organization, established in 2008, for the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
The Refuge and the Friends are located in eastern North Carolina on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. The Refuge Headquarters is in Columbia, North Carolina.
Our Mission...
is to help protect the natural treasures of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge by promoting informed public awareness of the refuge and its importance to all of us and future generations, raising funds, providing willing hands for various needed projects, and being a friend to the refuge in a variety of ways.
For tour schedules, click here .
If you would like to take one of the tours click here and send us a mail so we can get you on the list.
ALERT – Proposed Pantego Wind Facility
Pantego Wind Energy, LLC (EMP-61 Sub 0), a subsidiary of Chicago-based Invenergy, in September 2011, filed an application with the N. C. Utilities Commission for permission to build 492-foot-tall, industrial wind turbines — 49 of them — on 11,000 acres near Terra Ceia and Pantego in northeastern Beaufort County. Certificate granted March 2012.
Location: Near Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, in the same area as the Navy’s Proposed Outlying Landing Field (OLF) which was dropped because of the huge population of wintering waterfowl.
Concern: Location – Major Foraging Area for large Migratory Waterfowl – Tundra Swans, Snow Geese. Global Important Bird Area and the East Coast winter home for Tundra Swans.
U.S. Dept. of Interior/USFWS's Comments to N.C. Utilities Commission
Map -- Proposed Wind Turbines
Map -- Audubon Pungo-Pocosin Lakes Important Bird Area (IBA)
Map -- American Bird Conservancy Wind Development Bird Risk
Proposed Pantego Wind Facility Brochure 2-12-2012
Proposed Pantego Wind Facility Brochure 2-12-2012 Document Form
OLF opponents now scrutinizing windmill plans 3-12-2012
Bound to tangle with a turbine? 11-16-2011
N.C. Utilities Commission - Project: PANTEGO WIND ENERGY, LLC (EMP-61 Sub 0)
To see documents and comments posted on N.C. Utilities Commission's website click here
Urgent - Please sign petition
Click here - Petition to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar
Please contact your elected officials and express your concern
Governor Bev Perdue: (800) 662-7952 or (919) 733-2391; governor.office@nc.gov
Congressman Walter B. Jones: Washington, DC (202) 225-3415; Greenville, NC
(252) 931-1003 or toll-free (in N.C. only) (800) 351-1697; email contact form
Representative Bill Cook: (919) 733-5906; home (252) 946-5876; Bill.Cook@ncleg.net
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| Migratory Waterfowl (Tundra Swans, Snow Geese) on Pungo Lake by John Chrystal |
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Bald Cypress Tree – located on the south "handle" of The Frying Pan on the west side of Alligator River in Tyrrell County. This is just outside the Pocosin Lakes NWR, but one can see the tree from the other side of the handle in the refuge. Apparently this tree suffered severe damage from lightening or a storm many, many years ago. It grew around its injury and took on this most interesting shape. – Jack Spruill
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