Record #:

2568

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

To preserve and to make people aware of the coastal waterfowling tradition, citizens on Harkers Island hold a yearly Core Sound Decoy festival. Proceeds fund a waterfowl museum.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 59 Issue 11, Nov 1995, p14-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Decoys (Hunting)--Harkers Island; Wood-carvers; Festivals--Harkers Island; Museums--Harkers Island

Record #:

780

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Marion Lee and Nona Hison produced in Rockingham a 200-acre memorial to a beloved daughter that is now serving as the model for a new series of special wildlife areas.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 56 Issue 9, Sept 1992, p26-27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management areas

Record #:

809

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Michael Ehinger of Cumberland County was a gunsmith and the designer of the 18th-century replicas of the classic flintlock double-barrel shotguns.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 56 Issue 10, Oct 1992, p4-9, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ehinger, Michael; Gunsmiths--Cumberland County

Record #:

6010

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Formed from Tyrrell, Washington, and Hyde Counties, the 110,000-acre Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is the state's newest refuge. Venters describes the area which, in addition to preserving valuable wetlands, provides an excellent habitat for wintering waterfowl, including tundra swans.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 55 Issue 8, Aug 1991, p8-13, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife refuges

Record #:

7932

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

The North Carolina Nature Conservancy has signed a conservation easement agreement with two Bladen County landowners that will permanently protect twenty-three acres of forest in the Black River Swamp. The acreage contains a stand of 1,000-year-old bald cypress trees. Some of them date back to 364 A.D., making the trees some of the oldest ones east of the Rocky Mountains.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 54 Issue 3, Mar 1990, p28, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Baldcypress--Bladen County

Record #:

7920

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Water pollution, habitat alteration, and overfishing have contributed to the decline of one of the country's best striped bass fisheries in the Albemarle Sound and Roanoke River. A project now underway in Aurora may help to reverse that trend. Using N.C. Sea Grant Program and National Coastal Research Institute research, Lee and Harvey Brothers of Aurora became the first persons in the nation to pond-raise hybrid sea bass commercially when they harvested their first crop of 70,000 pounds. The fish is a cross between a striped bass and a white fish. Venters discusses what this success means to the aquaculture industry and to the recovery of the fish in the wild.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1990, p29, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Striped bass; Aquaculture--Aurora

Record #:

1383

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

While many factors seem to affect quail populations in the Southeast, the reduction of insects may be limiting the quail's brood habitat.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Feb 1994, p14-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Birds, Protection of; Quail

Record #:

1946

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

The comeback of wood duck populations in the eastern U.S. qualifies as a major wildlife management success story. In 1993 biologists banded over 2,500 wood ducks in the Tuckertown and Pee Dee River reservoirs as part of a new wildlife management program.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 58 Issue 10, Oct 1994, p18-23, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife management; Wood duck

Record #:

2731

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

In 1972, North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish bear sanctuaries. Now, through habitat management, the black bear population in the Coastal Plain numbers almost 5,000, the largest in similar areas of the southeastern United States.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 60 Issue 1, Jan 1996, p4-11, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife refuges; Black bear--North Carolina, Eastern; Wildlife management areas--North Carolina, Eastern

Record #:

2735

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Almost extinct in the western counties by the 1920s, black bears were saved by the depression and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Black bears now number 2,200 and are found in 24 mountain counties.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 60 Issue 2, Feb 1996, p10-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildlife refuges; Black bear--North Carolina, Western

Record #:

6009

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Allen Boynton, a North Carolina Wildlife Commission biologist, was awarded a Wildlife Management Excellence Award. The award was presented by the Wildlife Society, a professional organization of biologists, for leading peregrine falcon restoration in the state. The falcon had fallen victim to DDT and other food chain pesticide poisoning.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 65 Issue 12, Dec 2001, p29, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Peregrine falcon--Reintroduction

Record #:

3094

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

In the 1960s, over 250,000 migratory Canadian geese wintered at Lake Mattamuskeet. Now the population nears record lows, with only 29,000 pairs confirmed in Canada in 1995. Misguided management and resident flocks contribute to the problem.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 60 Issue 11, Nov 1996, p4-11, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Geese

Record #:

1776

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Sightings of the eastern coral snake in North Carolina have become increasingly rare since 1960. The reasons for the snake's decline are unclear, but indications are that it might disappear altogether from the state.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 58 Issue 8, Aug 1994, p28, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Micrurus; Snakes

Record #:

9939

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

Mention coyote and images of the West appear in the mind; however, within the past decade this pest from the West has arrived in North Carolina. There have been sightings in Jones, Craven, and Beaufort Counties, but the first evidence that the animals are breeding was discovered when some coyote pups were found on a Jones County farm.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 53 Issue 10, Oct 1989, p28, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Coyotes

Record #:

1771

Author(s):

Venters, Vic

Abstract:

In an effort to accommodate disabled and specially challenged sportspeople and hunters, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has developed two programs, the Disabled Access Program and the Disabled Sportsman's Program.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 58 Issue 8, Aug 1994, p29, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Disabled Access Program; North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Disabled Sportsman's Program