Butterfly Pit Stop

Angel Hjarding, NC Wildlife Federation director of pollinator and wildlife habitat programs (left), with NCEMC’s Richard McCall (Photo by Tara Verna).

Flowers are blooming on a seeded acre underneath transmission lines near North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation’s (NCEMC) Hamlet power plant. The site is officially a part of the Butterfly Highway initiative of the NC Wildlife Federation.

Learn more about the Butterfly Highway taking root in NC, and how the Hamlet power plant got its start in the project.

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