He is co-host of “Carolina Outdoor Journal” on UNC TV. He is also a passionate conservationist, and he has spent his life giving of his time and skills to conserve North Carolina’s outdoors. He most recently spearheaded a 7 year fight to save Pocosin Lakes NWR. This refuge has the largest concentration of waterfowl on the east coast; over 25,000 tundra swans and 80,000 snow geese winter there. The U.S. Navy picked a site within 3.5 miles of the refuge for an Outlying Landing Field (OLF). This OLF would experience 32,000 aircraft landings per year (about one every 15 minutes); it was not possible that the OLF and the birds could coexist. So Joe worked with Ducks Unlimited and a host of other organizations to wage a 7 year battle against locating the OLF in that area. He organized trips for the media and others to see the refuge’s wintering waterfowl.