DORIS MORRIS
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: The Friends of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge recently visited Washington, D.C. where they joined the National Audubon Society in an educational Energy Siting workshop. The workshop centered around green energy and its effects on birds and bats. The local organization received a $10,000 grant from Audubon to help them to actively protect the Pocosin Lakes from large wind turbine farms slated for construction near the refuge. The group also selected Creswell High School student Stevie Morris as the Political Education Student to accompany member Doris Morris to D.C. The group extended the opportunity to a local student to experience and expand their knowledge regarding green energy, the environment and political procedures, including lobbying and meeting with members of Congress, Senate and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At 110,000 acres, the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is one of the largest National Wildlife Refuges on the east coast.