2nd Saturday Cleanup: Railroad at N 30th & Princess Place Dr.
2020-11-14 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 617 Surry Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
We hope you’ll join us for our CDC-compliant 2nd Saturday cleanup coming up this Saturday, November 14th from 9-11am. Of course, if you and your loved ones do not feel comfortable attending, please stay home! Parking will be available at Ebenezer Baptist Church located at 2929 Princess Place Dr. Please practice safety along the tracks! Be sure to dress weather-appropriate, and bring your own water!
A few things to keep in mind prior to arrival:
– Please keep at least 6ft of distance from groups other than the one you arrived with.
– Please wear a mask when communicating with other groups or individuals while socially distancing.
– We will not be providing water, so please bring your own.
– We will be providing gloves and pickers. All cleanup materials will be sanitized before and after the event.
– Please check-in upon arrival. Signs and objects marking distance for proper queuing will be on-site.
***REGISTER HERE:*** https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_fmfXGErrhWSjxcuPomYEtfpXZ7uxf-d1LMBTkoU5RY5bdA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&gxids=7628
Please bring your mask! Questions? Email audrey@cfrw.us
See you there!

2020 Annual Membership Meeting
2020-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
We will gather virtually and hear from Kemp on the year’s accomplishments, vote in our next slate of board members and leave time to just socialize with our amazing community! All members and those interested in joining are welcome!! Join here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9617005052

October/November Book Club
2020-11-28 10:30 - 11:30 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
October/November CFRW Book Club Meeting

November 28 @ 10:30am
Join us for our October/November 2020 CFRW Book Club Meeting! The War on the EPA: America’s Endangered Environmental Protections by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley is our book selection for October/November 2020. The War on the EPA presents current issues concerning PFAS “forever chemicals” and the EPA’s role in the quality of our drinking water. This book is guaranteed to be a page-turner…

“The War on the EPA examines the daunting hurdles facing the EPA in its critical roles in drinking water, air and water pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This book takes the reader on a journey into some of today’s most pressing environmental problems: toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, pervasive agricultural pollution, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, and widespread air and water pollution from use of fossil fuels. Delving into the science, politics, and human dimension of these and other problems, the book illustrates the challenges of regulation, how today’s war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency’s legitimacy rests, and why a strong U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more important than ever before.”
Pomegranate Books will have copies of The War on the EPA available for purchase soon, and CFRW Book Club members receive a 15% discount. Thanks to everyone who participated in any of our discussions via Zoom during this pandemic! North Carolina has entered Phase 3 of COVID-19 restrictions and our next meeting will be in-person and socially distanced with chairs 6ft apart outside of Pomegranate Books! Book club was created and is facilitated by CFRW Board Member Chantay Allen.

1st Saturday Seminar with Kate Cardamone
2020-12-05 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
Join us via Zoom to hear from Kate Cardamone, who will share her extensive knowledge about native gardening.Zoom will open at 8:45am and the seminar will begin at 9am!
Unlike prior First Saturdays, you will need to REGISTER prior to attendance. Please click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO-rqDwvEtEpmMaakri7TKhOvQA2urph
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Kate was a distinguished faculty member at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University as well as an instructor at Boston Architectural College. She taught ecological design and plant identification courses and served as a thesis advisor at the Radcliffe Seminars Graduate Program in Landscape Design. In addition to owning her own landscape design firm for over three decades, she also served as a restoration design consultant at the Central New York Conservancy for fourteen years.

Community Cleanup at N 30th St & Princess Place Dr
2020-12-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Railroad at N 30th St., 2929 Princess Place Dr., Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
This month our regular Second Saturday Cleanup event is cancelled. In its place we will be hosting a community cleanup on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 15th from 1-4pm. We’ll be returning to November’s location along the railroad tracks at N 30th St & Princess Place Dr. in order to finish what we started. Last month 20 volunteers spent their Saturday morning picking up over 200 pounds of trash and recycling. Unfortunately, there is still much to be picked up at that location, so we hope you can join us! Please remember to practice safety along the railroad tracks! This cleanup might be more suitable for adults. Remember to dress appropriately, and bring plenty of water and sunscreen. Parking is available at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church located at 2929 Princess Place Dr.
Please sign up using this form beforehand!

2nd Saturday Cleanup
2021-01-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Front St & Greenfield St, 110 Greenfield St, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Our 2nd Saturday Cleanup is on the 4th Saturday this month! Along with Keep New Hanover Beautiful, Trees4Trash, & Island Wildlife, a new chapter of NC Wildlife Federation, we’re hosting a cleanup on the morning of Saturday, January 23rd from 9-11am. We’ll be cleaning up along Front St at the intersection of Greenfield St. This cleanup is more suitable for adults because we will be cleaning up right along Front St at a location that is quite busy with fast cars. Please remember to be safe and vigilant; NC Wildlife Federation will provide hazard vests for those who would like to wear one. Remember to dress appropriately (work boots or rubber boots or waders, long pants and sleeves) and bring plenty of water. Parking is available across the street at New Anthem Beer, address: 110 Greenfield St. Wilmington, NC 28401.
Please register using this form!
A few things to keep in mind prior to arrival:
– Please keep at least 6ft of distance from groups other than the one you arrived with.
– Please wear a mask when communicating with other groups or individuals while socially distancing.
– We will not be providing water, so please bring your own.
– We will be providing gloves and pickers. All cleanup materials will be sanitized before and after the event.
– Please check-in upon arrival. Signs and objects marking distance for proper queuing will be on-site.
Other precautions and procedural changes will be addressed on site.
Please bring your mask! Questions? Email audrey@cfrw.us
See you there!

December/January Book Club
2021-01-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
December/January CFRW Book Club Meeting

January 23 @ 10:30am
Join us for our December/January CFRW Book Club Meeting! This time, the book is real fishy because it’s all about the British Columbia commercial fishing industry!–It features halibut, black cod and fish thought to be extinct! So, we hope you’re ready to put your hooks into Still Fishin’: The BC Fishing Industry Revisited by Alan Haig-Brown.
“It is generally known that the West Coasts once-great commercial fishing industry has fallen on hard times, but as Alan Haig-Brown demonstrates in this new book, reports of its demise are exaggerated. A veteran of the industry himself, Haig-Brown here offers a state of the industry report, discovering pockets of surprising activity among the vistas of closed processing plants, downsized fleets and corporate concentration. The Ray Phillips family of Pender Harbour continue to support a second generation by fishing halibut and black cod. Albert Radil and his two brothers have found success trawling hake in Queen Charlotte Sound. Seiner John Lenic is taking advantage of the miraculous reappearance in BC waters of the pilchard, once thought extinct. Former Vietnamese boat person Lon Truong hopes to finance a triumphant return to the Mekong Delta by trawling BC shrimp. The Assu brothers of Campbell River still seine chum salmon in the same Johnstone Strait tide rip their father used to fish, as did many generations of Assu ancestors before them, but they have to work fast to get their work done in the near-impossible 12-hour time limit set by the DFO. In Haig-Brown’s story of the west coast fishery, boats get equal time with people and fish. He laments the destruction of some historic old seiners, just as he relishes the preservation of an old Finn Slough gillnetter named the Eva and approves the activities of fishboat superfan Randy Reifel, who uses his considerable wealth to buy up endangered boats and keep them in working order. Is the whole fishing industry now on life support? It seems to be headed that way, but this book offers many practical and persuasive reasons why it doesn’t have to be.”
Pomegranate Books will have copies of Still Fishin’ available for purchase, and CFRW Book Club members receive a 15% discount. Thanks to everyone who participated in any of our discussions via Zoom during this pandemic! This next meeting will be in-person and socially distanced with chairs 6ft apart outside of Pomegranate Books! (Please bring your own outdoor chair.) Book club was created and is facilitated by CFRW Board Member Chantay Allen.

February First Saturday Seminar with Roger Shew
2021-02-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
Join us via Zoom to hear from Roger Shew, who will talk about Eagles Island Update: A Little History, A Few Issues, Island Treasures and Possibilities

Registration required. Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0pdOutrjwpGdA… After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Roger has a BA in Earth Sciences from UNC-Wilmington, a Masters in Geology from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Masters in Science Education from the University of Houston. Roger worked in the energy industry for 20 years before returning to his home in Wilmington in 2000. He has been at UNCWilmington since that time teaching in the Earth and Ocean Sciences and Environmental Sciences Departments. Roger serves on the Board of Cape Fear River Watch. Roger’s favorite saying (modified a bit from Leopold), is: Not being connected to nature leads you to believe that food comes from the grocery, heat comes from the furnace, and water comes from the tap.

Rescheduled - February 2nd Saturday Cleanup
2021-02-20 09:00 - 11:00 | Railroad Tracks 3rd-17th, 811 Martin St, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Our 2nd Saturday Cleanup was postponed due to rain, but we will be back at it this weekend instead, on February 20th from 9-11am! Due to the rain washing away much of the litter that had been present in Burnt Mill Creek, we have changed the location of our cleanup. We will be cleaning up the railroad tracks from the Railroad Right-of-Way from 3rd St to 17th. This is a long stretch to cleanup, and along railroad tracks no less, so it is more suitable for adults! Remember to dress appropriately, wear your mask, and bring plenty of water. We will be meeting up roughly in the middle of this stretch of tracks at the Good Shepherd Center located at 811 Martin St. Parking is available along Martin St and 8th St (please do not park in the Good Shepherd parking lot).
Please register using this form!

March First Saturday Seminar
2021-03-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
Join us via Zoom to hear from Kyle Stenersen of Humble Roots Farm, who will talk about Implications and Applications of Growing Organically

Kyle is a first generation farmer, raising organic produce and pasture raised meats and eggs. He and his wife Katelyn and their four children live on and farm 55 acres of leased land in southeastern Pender County. After graduating from NC State in 2010 with a degree in Horticultural Science, he and his wife moved to Burlington NC to live and work on a farm that a friend owned. “Seeing a seed sprout, being able to tend the fragile plant to maturity and then bring it to market to exchange for money, which would let us do it all over again and all the while enriching our environment, making people healthier, and financially providing for our family was a new concept for me, and it ignited a passion that’s still very much alive.”

Registration Information to Follow

March 2nd Saturday Cleanup: Randall Pond
2021-03-13 09:00 - 11:00 | Randall Pond, 3801 Ashley Cir, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
Our 2nd Saturday Cleanup series is back this Saturday March 13th from 9-11am! We will be cleaning up Randall Pond in the Burnt Mill Creek watershed, based out of the pond’s southern bank near the intersection of Ashley Cir and Decatur Dr. To arrive, navigate towards 3801 Ashley Cir and park along either Ashley or Decatur. From there, Audrey and Patrick will be on hand to provide pickers, bags, gloves, and buckets. Volunteers will have the options of walking along the perimeter of the pond, cleaning up Anne McCrary Park, or paddling out for a water-based cleanup. As always, remember to dress appropriately, wear your mask, and bring plenty of water. See you out there!

March Community Cleanup
2021-03-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Leland Cleanup, 9381 Old Mill Rd NE, Lealand, NC, 28451, United States
We’re partnering with the Town of Leland to host an additional cleanup this month! On the morning of Saturday, March 27th, from 9-11am we’ll be cleaning up along Old Mill Rd where it crosses over Mill Creek. Remember to dress appropriately (work boots or rubber boots or waders, long pants and sleeves) and bring plenty of water. Parking is available at Seidokan Dojo (address: 9381 Old Mill Rd NE, Leland, NC 28451).

February / March 2021 Book Club
2021-03-27 10:30 - 11:30 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
Join us for our February/March CFRW Book Club Meeting! We are fortunate to be reading, A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness, another environmental book by David Gessner, a local author and Creative Writing Professor at UNCW.

Pomegranate Books will have copies of A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness available for purchase, and CFRW Book Club members receive a 15% discount. This next meeting will be in-person and socially distanced with chairs 6ft apart outside of Pomegranate Books! (Please bring your own outdoor chair.) Book club was created and is facilitated by CFRW Board Member Chantay Allen.

April First Saturday Seminar
2021-04-03 09:00 - 11:00
Save the Date for our April First Saturday Seminar featuring Warren Darrell, who will talk about Climate Change Impacts in the Cape Fear Region

Warren Darrell lives in the Wilmington area, is an avid sea kayaker, monitors high-tide flooding with the North Carolina King Tide Project, volunteers with the North Carolina Coastal Reserve, and volunteers in Central America with the Ecologic Development Fund. He is a registered professional engineer with an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alabama, and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Montana State University.

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO-rqDwvEtEpmMaakri7TKhOvQA2urph

April 2nd Saturday Cleanup - Medical Center Dr.
2021-04-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Medical Center Dr., 2300 Silver Stream Ln, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Our 2nd Saturday Cleanup series is back this Saturday April 10th from 9-11am! We will be cleaning up in the Greenfield Lake Watershed at Medical Center Dr. We will be cleaning up behind Bojangles and the Speedway gas station in small ditches and retention ponds. As always, we will provide pickers, bags, gloves, and buckets. Please remember to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, wear your mask, and bring plenty of water! Parking is available along Silver Stream Ln (navigate to 2300 Silver Stream Ln). See you out there! Please register beforehand to increase social distancing efforts!

May First Saturday Seminar
2021-05-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
Join Cape Fear River Watch and Special Guests to talk about PFAS (like GenX) from many perspectives including health, policy and community impact. Our esteemed guests will be: Toxicologist Dr. Jamie DeWitt, Clean Cape Fear’s Emily Donovan, Haw Riverkeeper Emily Sutton, NC Black Alliance’s La’Meshia Whittington, and filmmaker Elijah Yetter-Bowman.
May 1 from 9-11 AM via Zoom and FB Live. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO-rqDwvEtEpmMaakri7TKhOvQA2urph?fbclid=IwAR2-eIVqUtqf3I3xMRmCrJXOl61P9iq9LjSCEAjWEXayRXntYxFYqBo0xBs
Special Guests:
La’Meshia Whittington- La’Meshia Whittingtonis a Professor in the Division of Sociology at Meredith College. She is also the Deputy Director for Advance Carolina and the Campaigns Director for the North Carolina Black Alliance. She is the co-convener of the NC Black & Brown Policy Network, former National Democracy Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, former Chairwoman of the FRENC Fund Administration, Founding member of Democracy Green, member of the Burke Women’s Fund in Western NC and the former NC spokesperson on fair courts for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Professor Whittington leads the work on intersectional democracy and environmental justice, she was a co-author of NC Senate Bill 673, prioritizing environmentally contaminated communities-of-color in voting rights, and a co-author in several Pro-Democracy North Star legislation bills. Professor Whittington is a member of the NC PFAS Team anchoring AFFF legislation, and a convener of the Black Firefighters Fighting PFAS Collective. Professor Whittington has created and co-convened national, regional, and statewide tours and workshops on environmental justice, namely chemical contaminants, and dirty corporations. Professor Whittington continually works with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, DHHS and government agencies to ground community needs and strategies in alleviating health disparities in Black and Brown communities. Professor Whittington led the development of a statewide map to highlight the intersection of environmental justice contamination zones and the frequency in which they are located within gerrymandered Black majority voting districts. Professor Whittington is a community liaison for the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine for the Guidance on PFAS Testing and Health Outcomes national study. She is a petitioner in two active petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for more information: PFAS and 1,4 Dioxane. Professor Whittington is an Afro-Indigenous woman from North Carolina, hailing from a former environmental justice settlement: The Kingdom of the Happy Land. She received her education at Western Piedmont Community College and Meredith College.
Jamie Dewitt PhD, DABT- Jamie DeWitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Her laboratory’s research program focuses on functional effects of environmental chemicals on the immune system and its interactions with the nervous system during development and adulthood. With respect to PFAS, Dr. DeWitt has published numerous primary research articles and review articles, two book chapters, and edited a book on their toxicity. Her laboratory is currently assessing the immunotoxicity of emerging PFAS that are of concern in NC.
Elijah Yetter-Bowman- Elijah is a documentary filmmaker and UNC graduate raised in Wilmington, NC with a passion for problem solving. For nearly four years he has been following the PFAS crisis, first inspired by the 2017 Star News article. His focus is fusing STEM and the arts to share complex ideas in simple ways.

Emily Sutton- Emily Sutton joined the staff of Haw River Assembly in 2016, managing citizen science projects to watchdog against sediment pollution and monitor the tributaries and main stem of the Haw River. As Riverkeeper, she is now leading the fight against pollution in the Haw River on many fronts, including emerging contaminants, Jordan Lake nutrients, and sediment pollution. Emily grew up paddling rivers in the Midwest, and moved to North Carolina to received her B.A at Appalachian State University in Sustainable Development, where she studied Agroecology, Watershed Ecology, and Outdoor Education. Emily lives in Chatham County, NC.
Emily Donovan- Emily is co-founder of Clean Cape Fear–a grassroots community group formed in 2017 in response to discovering DuPont/Chemours contaminating North Carolina’s air, soil, water, and food supply with toxic PFAS for over 40 years. Her work has helped elevate NC’s PFAS contamination crisis to the national stage. She has testified before Congress twice regarding PFAS contamination. She created a lobby day effort in Washington, DC for local community members and participated in a Washington Post Live panel discussion with actor Mark Ruffalo and lawyer Rob Bilott. She helped organize and co-host two screenings of the movie, Dark Waters, in Wilmington and Raleigh featuring special guest, Mark Ruffalo–both events resulted in NC’s Attorney General suing DuPont/Chemours for natural resource damages and NC’s General Assembly filing a historic amount of PFAS bills during the 2021-2022 legislative session. Locally, she helped secure reverse osmosis filling stations for 49 public schools impacted by PFAS contamination in Brunswick and New Hanover counties. She is a member of the leadership team for the National PFAS Contamination Coalition and sits on various community advisory boards and coalitions working to address PFAS contamination. She frequents Washington, DC and Raleigh, NC pressuring lawmakers and regulators for quicker responses to our growing PFAS public health crisis. Emily lives in Brunswick County with her husband, David, and boy/girl twins. She’s been a resident of Brunswick County since 2009.

May 2nd Saturday Cleanup - Burnt Mill Creek
2021-05-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Shirley Rd., 2000 Shirley Rd, Wilmington, NC, 28405, United States
Our 2nd Saturday Cleanup series with Keep New Hanover Beautiful is back on Saturday May 8th from 9-11am! We will be cleaning up Burnt Mill Creek based out of Shirley Rd. To arrive, navigate towards 2003 Shirley Rd and park along either Shirley or Klein. Volunteers will have the options of walking along the greenway that runs from Shirley Rd to Princess Place Dr. or paddling out for a water-based cleanup in Burnt Mill Creek or McCumber’s Ditch. We will provide boats, life vests, paddles, gloves, bags, pickers, and a good time. As always, remember to dress appropriately, wear your mask, and bring plenty of water. See you out there!
Please register beforehand!

May Community Cleanup
2021-05-22 09:00 - 11:00 | Leland – S. Navassa Rd, 158 S Navassa Rd, Leland, NC, 28451, United States
We’re partnering with the Town of Leland to host an additional cleanup this month! On the morning of Saturday, May 22nd from 9-11am we’ll be cleaning up an old junkyard near Sturgeon Creek. Remember to dress appropriately, wear your mask and sunscreen, and bring plenty of water. As always, we’ll provide pickers, bags, buckets, and gloves. Parking is available on-site on the grass along S. Navassa Rd. Navigate to 158 S Navassa Rd. See you out there!

April/May Book Club
2021-05-22 10:30 - 11:30 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
Join us for our April/May CFRW Book Club Meeting! This month we will be reading Susquehanna, River of Dreams by Susan Q. Stranahan. The Susquehanna River, which is one of the oldest rivers in the United States. It is also the 16th largest in the United States and- at 444 miles long- the longest river on the East Coast! Rich in natural history with that flows over rocks and feeds into Chesapeake Bay, this is sure to be an intriguing book to read!

Pomegranate Books will have copies of Susquehanna, River of Dreams by Susan Q. Stranahan available for purchase, and CFRW Book Club members receive a 15% discount. This next meeting will be in-person and socially distanced with chairs 6ft apart outside of Pomegranate Books! (Please bring your own outdoor chair.) Book club was created and is facilitated by CFRW Board Member Chantay Allen.

June First Saturday Seminar
2021-06-05 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom and FB Live, NC, United States
Join Cape Fear River Watch and Bonnie Monteleone for her presentation, “Save Our Seas Save Ourselves”.
Bonnie Monteleone is the Executive Director and Director of Science, Research and Academic Partnerships for the Plastic Ocean Project based in Wilmington, NC. Her research engages citizen science with school-age children to university graduate students and to date has assisted over 100 UNCW students in Directed Independent Studies (DIS) on plastic related research projects. She co-created the course “Plastic Marine Debris Field Studies” at UNCW and has received several conservation awards for her innovative research and outreach on marine plastic pollution. She is a co-investigator on the NOAA funded research project “Microplastic ingestion in the Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata.” She established the analytical feasibility study working with a US company that is turning plastics into fuel. Ms. Monteleone is also an accomplished artist who integrates the plastic she has collected from the world’s oceans (near 10,000 nm) into modern artistic masterpieces. In 2017 she received the Governors Award for Environmental Communication, received the 2019 YWCA Women of Achievement for her environmental work, and a NC Coastal Federation Pelican Award in 2019.
June 5 from 9-11 AM via Zoom and FB Live. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcO-rqDwvEtEpmMaakri7TKhOvQA2urph

Cape Fear River Watch Summer Celebration
2021-06-05 16:00 - 21:00 | Waterline Brewing Co, 721 Surry St, Wilmington, 28401, United States
Join us for a community gathering to celebrate Summer on Saturday, June 5th from 4-9pm at Waterline Brewing Co! We’re looking to have a fun gathering with local vendors, food trucks, community organizations, a raffle and more! Stay tuned for more information on vendors and raffle prizes. All are welcome! We hope to see you there!

Music: The Smoky Dunes
Food: Pepe’s Tacos
Vendors: Amalia Rose Ceramics, Plants for Progress, Bones Soap Co., MaggieB’s Home-Baked Treats & more!
Community: Northside Food Co-op, Plastic Ocean Project, Keep New Hanover Beautiful, New Hanover Soil and Water Conservation District & more!
Raffle:Dinner for two at Chef Dean Neff’s new restaurant Seabird, an RO filtration system & installation from Whole Water Solutions, a paddling trip for six through the Three Sisters Swamp with Cape Fear River Adventures, & more!

June 2nd Saturday Cleanup - Great American Cleanup with KNHB
2021-06-12 09:00 - 11:00 | Kerr Ave Wetland, 4502 Fountain Dr, Wilmington
We’re changing it up a little bit for our cleanup coming up on Saturday, June 12th from 9-11am. While we always partner with Keep New Hanover Beautiful, next month’s partnership will look a little different, as June 12th is KNHB’s Great American Cleanup. As part of the Great American Cleanup, we have the opportunity for volunteers to register to receive a free cleanup kit, including a trash picker, a safety vest, a pair of gloves, a couple of trash bags and a scale. CFRW will be cleaning up the Kerr Ave Wetland located at 4502 Fountain Dr. You can read more about the cleanup and register for it here!
Feel welcome to join us following the cleanup at Wrightsville Beach Brewery to enjoy a celebratory beer! We are WBB’s 11% partner for the month of June, so 11% of proceeds from their beer of the month will be donated to CFRW!

Cargo District Cleanup
2021-07-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Crafted Outpost, 615 S 16th St Unit 120, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Cape Fear River Watch is excited to be partnering with Crafted Outpost to host a cleanup after their Consciously Curated Crafted Market. The market will take place from 12pm-4pm. The cleanup is scheduled to take place afterwards from 5pm-6pm. We will focus the cleanup on Castle Street. To arrive, head towards the intersection of Queen Street and 17th Street. Parking will be available in the gravel lot next to Crafted Outpost. Additional parking can be found in streetside spots along either Queen Street or Castle Street. Volunteers will be walking westbound on either side of Castle Street. We will provide gloves, bags, pickers, and safety vests. Please remember to dress appropriately and bring some water. We hope to see you there!
Please register beforehand using this form, thanks!

June/July Book Club
2021-07-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
Join us for our June/July CFRW Book Club Meeting! This month we will be reading Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner. This book, which tells the story of a major Western drought, water rights, and a rivalry between the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Army Corps of Engineers, was recommended by one of our book club members! Cadillac Desert is considered advocacy journalism and was a finalist for a National Book Critic’s Circle Award that inspired an award-winning documentary.

Pomegranate Books will have copies of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner available for purchase, and CFRW Book Club members receive a 15% discount. This next meeting will be in-person and socially distanced with chairs 6ft apart outside of Pomegranate Books! (Please bring your own outdoor chair.) Book club was created and is facilitated by CFRW Board Member Chantay Allen.

Riverfront Amphitheater Cleanup
2021-08-01 08:45 - 11:00 | Riverfront Park, 10 Cowan St, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Cape Fear River Watch and Island Wildlife – Cape Fear Region are excited to partner together for this cleanup at the Riverfront Park and surrounding downtown area on Sunday! Thanks to this partnership, the cleanup will also be a Trees4Trash event. That means that as a volunteer, your impact is doubled: for every 25 pounds of trash that you pick up, Trees4Trash will plant a tree to promote healthy wildlife habitat, mitigate climate change, and buffer storm water runoff and sediment load in waterways.

The cleanup will also be supported by Keep New Hanover Beautiful and Plastic Ocean Project! Thank you!

For the cleanup, here’s what you need to know:

Meeting time: 8:45am. Please sign in with CFRW and with Island Wildlife!
Start time: 9am
Duration: We’re anticipating a maximum of two hours
Address: 10 Cowan St.
Parking: Street parking
Look for: CFRW & Island Wildlife tent & sign-in table, cleanup signs & feather flag. We’ll be staging the cleanup from the amphitheater itself.
What we’re cleaning up: Amphitheater, surrounding city blocks, storm drains, river walk, overflowing trash cans, and potentially in the marsh grasses under the boardwalk (if safe and feasible). We will have some maps available of different areas of downtown to hit.
We provide: Pickers, gloves, safety vests, bags, and water (please bring a reusable bottle). We hope to have enough supplies for everyone present, but if you have any cleanup supplies of your own, please bring them!
Please bring: Sunscreen, hat, & water bottle

If you have any questions feel free to email Rob at rob@cfrw.us
Please register beforehand using this form: https://cfrw.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=6271&

August First Saturday Seminar
2021-08-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Online, NC, United States
Join us for our final ZOOM First Saturday Seminar featuring Dr. Peter Schumann for his talk “Anglers’ Willingness to Pay for Recreational Catch Improvements in the Cape Fear River”.
This seminar will take place on August 7th from 9am to 11am. Dr. Peter Schumann is a Professor of Economics at UNCW and earned his PhD in economics from NC State with field concentrations in environmental economics and statistics. His primary area of research is the non-market valuation of environmental goods and services, largely focused on coastal and marine resources and tourism in NC and the Caribbean. Dr. Schumann’s work includes consultancies with various national and international organizations and he has authored/coauthored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and technical reports.
Register beforehand here!

August 2nd Saturday Cleanup
2021-08-14 09:00 - 11:00 | Railroad Tracks 3rd-17th, 811 Martin St, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
After a month off, it’s time to get back at it! CFRW will be partnering with Keep New Hanover Beautiful, hosting our monthly second Saturday cleanup on August 14th from 9-11am.

We are going to focus our efforts on the Greenfield Lake Watershed by cleaning up the railroad tracks that run from 3rd to 17th St. The railroad tracks, the roadway, and the storm drains will all need to be cleaned.

There is potential for some of our houseless community members to be in the area of our cleanup. Please be respectful of their space and belongings. If you see something that may be someone’s personal belongings, please leave it be.

The address will lead you to the Good Shepherd Center. Please don’t park in their parking lot – rather, park on either 8th St or Martin St. Look for the CFRW cleanup signs!

We will provide pickers, bags, safety vests, gloves, and a good time. We will need some volunteers to clean up the interior of the ditch. So if you have your waders or tall rubber boots, bring them! As always remember to dress appropriately, bring sunscreen, and water. We hope to see you out there!

Please register in advance!

International Coastal Cleanup
2021-09-11 09:00 - 11:00 | Greenfield Lake Boathouse, 302 Willard St., Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Save the date for this year’s International Coastal Cleanup, a project of the Ocean Conservancy that engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Cape Fear River Watch and Keep New Hanover Beautiful are teaming up with other local nonprofits and businesses to host cleanup sites all throughout New Hanover County. Partners include our local chapter of Surfrider, the Wilmington Yoga Center, and more!

Cape Fear River Watch will be based out of the Greenfield Lake Boathouse, and volunteers will be able to clean up either on land or by boat. As always, we’ll supply all the supplies you need except water and sunscreen! Check out our FB event for updated information.

Please register beforehand.

September Third Saturday Paddle: Rice Creek
2021-09-18 08:00 - 14:00
Rice Creek paddle will be relatively easy – approximately 5 miles, quiet shaded, and should take about 3 hours to complete. We will put in and take out at the WRC ramp on Rice Creek in Brunswick County. A map from CFRW to the put-in can be found HERE. You can put your address in box A and get directions from your house if you prefer to meet us at the put in.
This paddle is BYOB (Bring Your Own Boat!).
Paddlers can meet at the Cape Fear River Watch headquarters where we will meet to caravan, or meet up with the caravan at the put in location. We will meet at CFRW headquarters at 7:30 am for an 8:00am departure. Those meeting us at the put in should be there by 8:15. All paddlers should wear a PFD. Other items to remember include sunscreen, hat, sunglasses, water, snack and water shoes if you would like to explore the beaches where oyster shells are present.
To help River Watch continue to bring you great programs like our Paddle Series and Educational Seminars, we ask you make a $10 donation either online with your registration or by bringing cash or check to the paddle on Saturday. If you need help the day of the paddle please call Kemp at 910-264-8036. Conditions may change in the period leading up to the paddle. Please check your email the night before and the morning of the paddle to ensure that the paddle has not been cancelled.
Please register beforehand here: https://cfrw.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=6582&

Aug/Sept Book Club
2021-09-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, 28403, United States
Join us at 10:30am on Saturday, September 25, to discuss our August/September pick at Pomegranate Books!
Our August/September 2021 book is Moving To Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward written by John Englander, a renowned oceanographer and expert on climate change and sea level rise. Climate change is a controversial topic among those who doubt it and those who refuse to deny it. Moving To Higher Ground discusses the facts about the rising sea level and how excess heat in our oceans contributes to the ongoing problem that is affecting coastal communities around the globe. Copies will be available to CFRW Book Club Members for 15% OFF at Pomegranate Books!
Our next meeting is weather permitting. Due to COVID-19 social gathering restrictions, we will be meeting outside, and chairs will need to be spaced at least 6ft apart.
