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

Record #:

26478

Author(s):

Abstract:

State wildlife biologists have released five river otters in the Little Tennessee River in Swain County, bringing to 20 the total number released this past winter in the North Carolina mountains. Biologists developed the otter restoration program in hopes of returning the river otter to previous population levels.

Source:

Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 38 Issue 3, May/June 1991, p9, il

Subject(s):

Otters--Reintroduction

Record #:

30045

Author(s):

Tango, Peter J.; Michael, Edwin D.

Abstract:

River otters were transplanted from North Carolina and Maryland into the West Fork River of West Virginia during February and April, 1987. Birth of young and mating by the released otters occurred within two months of release. This represents the only known occurrence of birth during the same year following transplanting.

Source:

Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 17, Dec 1991, p53-55, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Otters--Reintroduction