Record #:

4589

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

The mountain ash isn't really an ash. It's part of the rose family, a relative of the backyard bush. Leaf peepers could care less and enjoy the sight of its ruby-colored fruit announcing autumn. Birds and bears dine on its bitter fruit, and Native Americans used it for medicinal purposes. The mountain ash - a useful tree for animals and people, whatever its designation.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 10, Oct 1999, p4-7, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Eucalyptus regnans

Record #:

4592

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Robert Johnson paints nature. His newest project, \"The Nature Conservancy Series,\" was completed in the spring of 1999 and consists of paintings of ten sites protected by the Nature Conservancy, including Bluff Mountain, Panthertown Valley, and Horseshoe Lake. Don't expect to find the realism of a photograph in Johnson's paintings; his works are interpretations of what he sees. Johnson has lived and worked in North Carolina for twenty-six years, and nature is the subject of much of his paintings.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 12, Dec 1999, p14-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Artists--Celo; Johnson, Robert

Record #:

4593

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Bill Holman, who lobbied the state legislature for twenty years on environmental issues, is the new secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Just a few weeks after he took office, Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd battered Eastern North Carolina. In an interview with Lawrence Earley, Holman discusses his environmental agenda for the twenty-first century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p4-7, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Holman, William E.; North Carolina. Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

Record #:

4601

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

One of the greatest and most influential conservation books ever published in the United States was published in 1949. The author was Aldo Leopold, and the book was A Sand County Almanac. Only Carson's Silent Spring and Thoreau's Walden are serious competitors. Wildlife biologists Pete Bromley and Phil Doerr discuss what Leopold's work says to citizens of North Carolina at the start of the twenty-first century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 9, Sept 1999, p14-19, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife conservation; Conservationists; Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948

Record #:

4603

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Retired ornithology professor Thomas L. Quay was honored by North Carolina State University with the naming of the Thomas L. Quay Wildlife and Natural Resources Undergraduate Experimental Learning Award. Quay taught at N.C. State for 32 years, and received one of the first doctoral degrees awarded there in 1948. He was inducted into the North Carolina Wildlife Federation's Conservation Hall of Fame in 1994.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p33, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Quay, Thomas L. (Lavelle), 1914-2012

Record #:

4610

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000, p9-12 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Floods--North Carolina, Eastern; Hurricane Floyd, 1999

Record #:

4744

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Early-successional habitats are areas of a mountain forest that are beginning to recover from events like fires, storms, or logging. First come grasses, then shrubs, and finally trees. All of these stages are important to wildlife survival. Earley discusses the value of early-successional habitats for mountain wildlife, their growing rarity, and what steps are being taken to maintain them.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 9, Sept 2000, p12-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Habitat (Ecology); Habitat conservation; Wildlife management

Record #:

4897

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Artist Thomas Bennett is following in the footsteps of artists Audubon and Fuertes in painting highly detailed, accurate paintings of the state's extinct and endangered wildlife. In 1998, he embarked on a ten-year project depicting wildlife in North Carolina and the Southeast. When finished, the series will contain between 70 and 80 paintings. Several of Bennett's paintings hang in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, where he has been named the museum's first artist-in-residence.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 1, Jan 2001, p12-16, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife artists--Raleigh; Wildlife art; Bennett, Thomas

Record #:

5500

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Cheerwine, a burgundy-colored cola with a hint of lemon-lime, was first bottled in Salisbury, in Rowan County, in 1917. Cheerwine still remains a family-owned business. The company has begun marketing outside the state and also has developed a respectable mail-order business for North Carolinians who have moved away.

Source:

North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 60 Issue 9, Sept 2002, p34, il

Subject(s):

Soft drink industry--Salisbury

Record #:

5501

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

At age 75, Rose Post has been a reporter on the Salisbury Post for over 51 years. She was a recipient of the national Ernie Pyle Award in 1989, and has won more awards than anyone else in the history of the North Carolina Press Association.

Source:

North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 60 Issue 9, Sept 2002, p40, il

Subject(s):

Black River--Description and travel

Record #:

6006

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 3, Mar 1991, p14-19, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Endangered species

Record #:

6011

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Since 1984, six wildlife species have been reintroduced to their native range in the Great Smoky Mountains by the National Park Service. In 1991, a family of red wolves was reintroduced into the park. Earley discusses steps taken by the Park Service to win public support for the reintroduction.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 8, Aug 1991, p14-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Red wolf--Reintroduction

Record #:

6013

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Brunswick County has more natural communities of rare plants and animals than any other county in the state. Among the communities are more than 100 rare plants and over 20 natural areas of national and statewide significance. Brunswick County also has development proceeding at an unchecked pace. Earley discusses why this is of concern to conservationists and what could be done about it.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 6, June 1991, p14-21, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Rare animals--Brunswick County; Rare plants--Brunswick County; Habitat conservation--Brunswick County

Record #:

6014

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Some fish, like the largemouth bass, are found in streams throughout the state. Others, like the Carolina madton, have a limited range because of geographical barriers or other factors. These latter fish are called endemic, and there are five species in the state: Carolina madton, Cape Fear Shiner, Waccamaw darter, Waccamaw killifish, and Waccamaw silverside.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 4, Apr 2001, p2-3, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fishes--Geographical distribution

Record #:

6042

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

When publishing magnate and sportsman Joseph P. Knapp first came to Currituck in 1916, he began a love affair with the region. Earley describes how Knapp's love of hunting evolved into a need to conserve waterfowl. He helped form an organization which eventually became Ducks Unlimited, a leading conservation group. Since its founding in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has raised $134 million for waterfowl conservation. Almost $100 million has gone directly to wetland development.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 9, Sept 1981, p18-20, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.; Waterfowl management; Knapp, Joseph Palmer, 1864-1951