From USFWS

 

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is offering new summer programming that will provide memories to last you all year. We’re excited to offer educational programs that will both entertain and inform. Programs run through September 28. Some programs are offered weekly, and some are one-time-only. Please check out the summer schedule below for more details.

• Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – What’s for Dinner?

What’s on a wolf’s dinner menu, and how do wolves fit into the food chain?

• Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – How to Talk Like a Wolf

Do wolves really howl at the moon? Come to this program and find out.

• Fridays at 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Red Wolf 101 Red wolf basics and all the red wolf fun facts you could want.

Weekly red-wolf programs will be held at the Red Wolf Education and Health Center

located one mile south on N.C. Highway 94 in Columbia.

Just here for a quick visit? Then drop by one of our Saturday Pop-in Programs. Special topic information and activities are available on select Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. All Pop-in Programs will be held at the Walter B. Jones Sr. Center for the Sounds (Pocosin Lakes Visitor Center) in Columbia programs are:

• July 28 – red wolves;
• Aug. 11 – black bears;
• Aug. 25 – reptiles and amphibians;
• Sept 8 – what’s a pocosin?
• Sept 22 – duck, duck, goose.

For more information about these and other refuge programs, contact Refuge Volunteer and Program Coordinator Sarah Watts by phone at 252-796-3004, by email at sarah.watts@ncwf.org or visit the Walter B. Jones Sr. Center for the Sounds located in Columbia.

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is one of six national wildlife refuges in the Coastal North Carolina National Wildlife Refuges Complex. Pocosin Lakes Visitor Center, located in Columbia, is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. whenever volunteer staffing is available.