{"id":19398,"date":"2023-07-11T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=15147"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:25:17","slug":"lauren-d-pharr-receives-governors-conservation-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/lauren-d-pharr-receives-governors-conservation-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren D. Pharr Receives Governor’s Conservation Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
For immediate release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauren D. Pharr, contributing editor for Coastwatch<\/em> magazine and third-year Ph.D. student in North Carolina State University’s College of Natural Resources, has earned the 2023 Governor’s Conservation Achievement Award for Young Conservationist of the Year. Sponsored by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, the awards program highlights people and organizations that have worked for conservation in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As an avian ecologist, Pharr’s research takes her to the North Carolina Sandhills, where she helps with conservation of the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, studying how climate change may affect the species’ population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n