Record #:

16935

Author(s):

Zlotnicki, Mike

Abstract:

Christine Kelly, a wildlife diversity biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, is one of nine nationwide recipients of a 2011 Recovery Champion Award given by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for outstanding efforts to preserve endangered species. Kelly was honored for her work with the Northern flying squirrel which is found only in small groups in the state's highest mountains.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 76 Issue 4, July/Aug 2012, p41, por

Subject(s):

Endangered species--North Carolina, Mountains; Recovery Champion Award; Kelly, Christine; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--Awards