Record #:

6012

Author(s):

Carraway, Mike

Abstract:

Through a live-trapping and relocation program by the North Carolina Wildlife Commission, otters are being restored to their former native rivers in western North Carolina. The last confirmed western sighting was in 1936 in Haywood County. To date, twenty-three otters have been relocated to the Catawba River in Burke County and thirteen to the Little Tennessee River in Swain County.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 5, May 1991, p20-23, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Otters--Reintroduction