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Tyrrell County

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

The Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Photograph from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Field trip opportunities

Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center (Columbia)
Part of the non-profit Partnership for the Sounds organization, the center provides information on environmental stewardship for coastal North Carolina.
Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Center (Columbia)
Located a few miles outside Columbia, North Carolina, the center provides programming dealing with ecology, ecosystems, and animals and their habitats to area school groups.
The Walter B. Jones Sr. Center for The Sounds and the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (Columbia)
Students can take a walk on the Scuppernong River Interpretive Boardwalk and participate in an environmental education program at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

Learn more about Tyrrell County

Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center
A combination of environmental education and local history can be found in this renovated movie palace in Columbia, North Carolina. Artifacts from fishing, forestry and farming in the Albemarle Sound region...
Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Center
The pocosin forests, broad bays, estuaries, creeks, wetlands and shores around the Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Center provide an optimal outdoor learning area for environmental education. Programs...
The Walter B. Jones Sr. Center for The Sounds and the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
This wildlife refuge covers three counties: Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington, but the headquarters is located in Columbia in Tyrell County. The refuge provides protection and habitat to migratory waterfowl...

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