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Wildlife-Friendly Certification Program Interest Survey
Kendall Kelly, Fall 2024 Education Intern Hello Bald Head Island homeowners! I’m excited to explore the possibility of launching a Wildlife-Friendly Certification Program for our community, organized through the Bald Head Island Conservancy! Your input is important in shaping this initiative, which aims to protect our sea turtles &...
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Aquatic Macroinvertebrates on Bald Head Island
By Riley Westman, Fall Intern 2024 Aquatic macroinvertebrates are organisms that can be seen with the naked eye (“macro”), don’t have a backbone (“invertebrate”), and live in water for all or part of their life cycle. Despite being ubiquitous in freshwater ecosystems, they rarely get the love they deserve. Macroinvertebrates provide a number of...
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Efforts to Eradicate Beach Vitex Start Again in Fall 2024
By Riley Westman, 2024 Fall Intern Starting the last week of September and continuing through the end of the year, the Conservancy is once again trekking through the dunes in their annual effort to manage beach vitex. Beach vitex is an invasive plant species that was purposely brought to the United States from Japan and […]
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Rescuing Our Island Birds
By Natalie Novak, 2024 Fall Intern Living on Bald Head Island brings unique challenges every single day. With hundreds of animals inhabiting the island, they can get into some trouble. Bald Head Island Conservancy is the primary organization that responds to wildlife emergencies on the island. As an intern, I have been learning to rescue […]
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Venturing into Fall with Native Plants
By Kendall Kelly, 2024 Fall Intern The Conservancy’s Education team spent the morning of October 7 celebrating the unveiling of the new pollinator garden signage at Marina Park. Thanks to the collaborative efforts between the Conservancy, the BHA, the Village, and countless community volunteers, the exhibit is flourishing with pollinators and...
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Prototype Plankton-Tow Activity for Barrier Island Botanists
By Sarah Powers, Fall Intern 2024 As part of our Barrier Island Botanist program, our education team recently tested a new hands-on plankton-tow activity, aimed at engaging participants with the tiny but fascinating organisms that thrive in our island’s waters. We explored three different sites around Bald Head Island and collected five...
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Interns After Hours
By Kaitlyn Williams, Summer Intern 2024 Being an intern at the Bald Head Island Conservancy has been a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. As an intern, one of the first questions I get asked (after a quick update on nesting season of course), is what my summer has looked like so far. You’ve seen us all around […]
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Bald Head Island Through My Lens
By Danielle Petty, Summer Intern 2024 As a Marketing/Development Intern this summer, one of my favorite parts of the job has been content creation—from taking videos at BHIC events to photographing so many fun moments. Photography is one of my favorite things to do outside of work too, and I’ve spent the summer capturing as […]
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Environmental Education: Why It’s Important and What It Means to Me
By Mollie Martin, Summer 2024 Intern There is so much work being done here at Bald Head Island Conservancy – from sea turtle protection to oyster reef restoration to water quality testing and so much more! But I’ve learned in my time here that education is at the heart of all of this work. Environmental […]
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BHI Oaks in a Nutshell
By Larah Gonzalez, Summer 2024 Intern A walk through Bald Head Island’s maritime forest grants each visitor an awe- inspiring view of oak trees, towering above and stretching their branches towards the sky. Oak trees are an integral species within the maritime forest. Their canopies cast a welcome reprieve from the sun and provide habitat...
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