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9730
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Charlotte Hilton Green was an influential champion of North Carolina's natural environment. In this WILDLIFE IN NORTH CAROLINA interview, she discusses her books, her weekly newspaper column, “Out-of-Doors in Carolina.” which appeared in the Raleigh NEWS AND OBSERVER for forty-two years, her travels, and the Carolina Bird Club.
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Eastern North Carolina received 23 inches of rain in two weeks, half of the yearly total, from Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd. The result was a flood of mammoth proportions. Experts also blame man's altering the landscape as a prime cause of the flooding. Earley describes natural landscapes and floods; altered landscapes and floods; and altered landscapes and Hurricane Floyd.
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697
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An environmental donnybrook is brewing in the east as forest practices in wetlands are being scrutinized as never before.
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Carl Schenck, manager of the Biltmore Forest, founded the nation's first forestry school in 1898. The Biltmore Forest School opened the country to the concept of forest management. Today, such new ideas as seeing forests as sustainable and as part of a larger landscape guide forestry management.
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Wildlife photographer Jack Dermid has traveled across North Carolina in search of photographic opportunities. Earley discusses his life and work.
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Rising 5,100 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Bluff Mountain, near West Jefferson, is a treasure chest of botanical riches. Forty-two rare, endangered animals and flowering plants, including the bog turtle, wood lily, and sundew, are found there. An unusual feature of the mountain is a highland plateau that contains the only fen in the southern Appalachians.
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9867
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In this Carolina Profile, Garland Bunting of Scotland Neck talks about coon dogs. Bunting was an officer for the Halifax County Alcoholic Beverages Control for a number of years.
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Earley profiles some of the animals and plants that live in the state that could soon vanish if efforts to save them fail. These include swamp pink, cliff avens, Heller's blazing star, Plymouth gentian, northern pine snake, Cape Fear shiner, and piping plover.
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Down East is more water than land and stretches from Beaufort to Cedar Island. Earley describes a diverse collection of fishing boats and their builders that have plied these waters for almost a century.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 12, May 2008, p126-128, 130, 132, 134, il Periodical Website
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1054
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Ernal Foster is a pioneer of offshore sportfishing at Hatteras.
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692
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Four years have passed since fire swept 45,000 acres of the Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County, leaving a blackened wasteland. Today, wildlife has rebounded.
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Our wetlands are disappearing rapidly, but new programs such as the \"swampbuster\" provision of the 1985 Farm Bill and the National Wetlands Inventory are expected to help.
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1079
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The new book, \"North Carolina WILD Places: A Closer Look,\" surveys the various types of natural habitats existing in North Carolina, from mountains to coast and places in between.
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Inglis Fletcher is one of North Carolina's best-known novelists. Her ten historical novels deal with the Albemarle region during Colonial times. On April 14, 1961, Inglis Fletcher Day was celebrated in Edenton.
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2791
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Currently almost 1,000 non-game species in North Carolina receive little or no funding for research and management. The proposed $350 million federal Wildlife Diversity Funding Initiative would remedy this.
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