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34609
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Thirty years ago, the wild turkey was disappearing quickly from North Carolina. Now, after the Wildlife Resources Commission helped restock turkeys by taking them from overabundant areas to areas that were completely barren, the species is flourishing once again in North Carolina.
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34583
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The Chimney Swift, a migratory bird that nests in North Carolina in early April, is well-known for their chimney roosting habits. These birds collect by the thousands in chimneys across North Carolina from dusk until dawn. With the disappearance or capping of chimneys in residential areas, conservationists have begun designing towers made from brick or concrete for the swifts to live in.
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The most severe drought on record has hit North Carolina, amounting to several ecological problems around the state. Droughts affect burning necessary for forests and plant species, the lower water levels have hurt native species and allowed invasive species to thrive, and ponds drying up are leaving amphibians and fishes without habitats.
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The purple martin spends their breeding and nesting season in North Carolina and spend the winter in South America. After finding martin houses unattended, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences teamed up with the Wake Audubon Society to tend to the houses and move them to more desirable locations. The new locations also allow the public to observe the behavior of the purple martins.
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34608
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The North Carolina native band, the Bowerbirds, based many of their songs off of the work they completed while helping the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The main guitarist and vocalist spent time together working to track the Swainson’s warbler for the museum, and as a result, created poems and songs based on what they experienced in nature.
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34578
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With new technology becoming more easily accessible and cost-effective, the museum has begun incorporating different techniques to study animals in the wild. The Southern Hognose snake in Sandhills and the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in the Appalachian mountain range are two species that have been studied using technological advancements. These approaches have already led to new observations regarding these species.
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34579
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Two of the museum employees capture the natural world around them in different ways. One uses a digital camera, and the other one sketches and paints. By making their subject matter the natural life of North Carolina, they hope to inspire people of all kinds to go out into nature and try it for themselves.
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Picture Creek Nature Preserve has the most diverse collection of native species to North Carolina. With the help of museum educators and the Department of Agriculture, this area will be opened up for education, prescribed burns, and seed collection in order to maintain the quantity and scope of native flora and fauna.
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North Carolina State University Libraries is teaming up with paleobotanist Elisabeth Wheeler in order to catalog thousands of species of wood. The collection, “Inside Wood”, will be available on the free public database, and showcase thousands of samples from different trees around the world. Wheeler has also donated her personal collection of 25,000 samples to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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The Aurora Fossil Museum is just one of many museums in the North Carolina Grassroots Science Museums Collaborative (GSMC). Since 1990, the GSMC has helped facilitate cooperative projects between members, enabled them to develop exhibits, and expand science education around North Carolina. There are now 25 member institutions in the GSMC, all of which benefit from acting as a cohesive unit for funding opportunities and intellectual sharing.
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34575
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In an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the diverse geology of the state is explored. North Carolina is the only state to produce all four major gems. Emeralds, sapphires, hiddenite, rubies, space rocks and more are all on display at the museum in the Treasures Unearthed exhibit.
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In an effort to create more public outreach programs, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has created Outreach North Carolina. With the help of federal grant money, Outreach North Carolina has brought environmental education programs to ten underserved counties that have a large amount of natural resources. Five different programs catering to the public, children, and Spanish-speaking communities are now in effect.
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34573
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With the arrival of a newly discovered fossil of a bus-sized prehistoric crocodile, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences discusses its own native crocodile. Deinosuchus, discovered in 1858, is a prehistoric crocodile that is commonly found throughout southeast North America. Paleontologists believe that these were once as common in North Carolina as alligators are in Florida now.
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34574
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has begun breeding a special species of seahorse. Hippocampus erectus, one of two native species to North Carolina, have dwindled in number in the wild. The breeding program will not only help bolster the exhibits here in North Carolina, but also afford the opportunity to trade with other museums for live animals that are not on exhibit at the museum.
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34558
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In North Carolina, it has become difficult to protect species that are disappearing from the state. Protection plans can include listing the species as endangered or otherwise, purchasing or creating easements for habitat lands, and collecting species for museums and conservancies. Examples of many different species and their rehabilitation plans outline how strategies must sometimes be diverse.
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North Carolina Naturalist
(NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2001,
p16-19, il, por
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