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Volunteers posing with trash collected from Walnut Creek

Wake County Big Sweep kicks off Spring season with exciting volunteer cleanups

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smiling child holds watershed poster

Students across Wake County win awards for creative conservation posters

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Portrait of Sheila Jones_2024

Sheila B. Jones Environmental Education Scholarship now accepting applications

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pine trees at the edge of a field

Wake County preserves family farm in Northern Wake

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A sunlit forest with tall trees, autumn leaves on the ground and long shadows cast across the forest floor.

Wake County and Triangle Land Conservancy protect 28 acres of forestland near Wendell

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stream with vegetation growing on banks

Wake County launches study to restore stream at State Farmers Market

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smiling speaker stands at podium

Six decades of conservation excellence in Wake County

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We All Live in a Watershed

Wake County 3rd–5th graders can showcase their art in annual poster contest

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wooden archway entrance and path surrounded by trees and plants with barn in background

Wake County and Triangle Land Conservancy protect Johnson Farm with new easement

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plants in a field

Wake County seeks public input on farmland protection

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Paige Meadows

Wake County awards 2025 Sheila B. Jones Environmental Education Scholarship to junior at NC State

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grazing horses

Wake County and Triangle Land Conservancy secure permanent protection for 40-acre Walton Farm

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20th annual Keeping the Farm workshop, with illustrations of fields and barn

Wake County marks 20 years of supporting farmers with Keeping the Farm workshop

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Family Farm award winners and Soil & Water staff pose in farm field

Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District announces 2024 annual awardees

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"Wetlands Are Wonderful: 2025 Conservation Poster Contest"

Wake County students invited to capture the essence of wetlands in poster contest

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Sheila B. Jones, Environmental Educator

Wake County announces winners of the Sheila B. Jones Environmental Education Scholarship

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farm field with growing corn stalks

Study finds agricultural land provides a net benefit to Wake County

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Subchronic Exposure team members with advisors

Envirothon champions from Wake to make record-setting seventh appearance at international contest

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Sheila B. Jones, Environmental Educator

New scholarship to support Wake students in environmental education

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Big Sweep volunteer paddles a canoe loaded with trash

Volunteers remove over 3,000 pounds of trash from Crabtree Creek

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