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Sponsor Spotlight: Wendy Wilmot Properties
At Wendy Wilmot Properties, sharing love of the Island is what we do. We give visitors a look into this way of life through our rental program and help them become our neighbors and reach their Island goals through facilitating their buying/selling. Wendy Wilmot Properties opened its doors as a real estate company in 2004. […]
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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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Obituary for Stumpy II
By Dr. Beth Darrow, Director of Science We are saddened to report the death of the alligator who many called “Stumpy II,” a well-loved inhabitant of the Wildlife Overlook lagoon and contributor to research on alligator health and population biology on Bald Head Island. While we aren’t always able to identify individual alligators, Stumpy II...
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Conservation Team Releases 2023 Environmental Services Report
By Dr. Beth Darrow, Director of Science Each year, the Bald Head Island Conservancy conducts an Environmental Services Contract on behalf of the Village of Bald Head Island to understand and protect the habitats and species that make the island a special place for all residents and visitors. In 2023, the Conservancy continued valuable...
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2024 Sea Turtle Nesting Season, So Far…
By Paul Hillbrand, Sea Turtle Biologist FFX426, a neophyte loggerhead (Caretta caretta), was the first nesting mother observed by the Conservancy’s Sea Turtle Protection Team (STPT) in 2024. Illuminated by the night’s moon, she laid BHI’s third nest on May 5, just north of the terminal groin along West Beach. Not only was FFX426 the...
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Audubon Pelican Banding
By Dr. Jennifer Wiggen, Senior Educator In mid-August 2024, our Senior Educator Dr. Jennifer Wiggen had the opportunity to go out with Lindsay Addison of Audubon North Carolina to assist with Brown Pelican banding and sampling on the Cape Fear River. The goal of the project was to determine type and amount of PFAS (per- […]
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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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