Please note that this workday was originally scheduled for Saturday, December 2. Due to the expected rain, it has been postponed to Saturday, December 9.

Friends, volunteers, and staff of the Carolina Sandhills NWR, along with the SC Wildlife Federation, will host a workday at the refuge on Saturday, December 9, 2023. Originally an annual project of the SC Wildlife Federation and the refuge, the workday is resuming this year after several cancellations related to the pandemic.   

An exciting project this year is marking and improving the new Doe Hill Trail.  This 4-mile network of woods and gravel roads has been joined together to form a new foot trail that will be dedicated in March, 2024 to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the refuge’s establishment. Volunteers will blaze the route, install signage, and perform other tasks necessary to ready the trail for hikers. 

Participants should wear field clothes and bring work gloves, water, and a snack. Participants will meet at Lake Bee at 9:00 a.m., located 8 miles northeast of McBee on US Highway 145 in Chesterfield County. The workday will conclude at noon, but participants may wish to picnic at Lake Bee before leaving the Refuge.   

Established in 1939, Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge contains rolling sand hills dominated by the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem.  Along with the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, the refuge is home to more than 190 species of birds, 42 species of mammals, 41 species of reptiles, and 25 species of amphibians.  More than 800 species of plants have been identified on the refuge, including rare species of pitcher plants, Well’s pixie-moss, and the white-wicky.

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