The Nongame Wildlife Advisory Committee, an advisory board of the North Carolina Wildlife Commission, protects wildlife species that may sometimes be overlooked.
As a result of a restoration project by the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, red wolves, an important part of North Carolina's wildlife heritage, are reappearing.
For fifty years, the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (also known as the P-R Bill) has been largely responsible for protecting and restoring this nation's wildlife.
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.
Private citizens in North Carolina are participating in a grassroots movement to set aside areas in land trusts that will preserve wildlife habitats and relieve pressure on government to purchase such lands.
Instituting a new definition of \"critical habitat\" for freshwater fish and mussels may be North Carolina's most important conservation battle of the year. The new definition would require a conservation plan for 25 streams where the species live.
The state's species of salamanders, frogs, and toads are facing an uncertain future as wetland habitats, which serve as breeding grounds are developed or drained. Approximately fifty percent of the state's permanent wetlands have been destroyed.
The federal Conservation Reserve Program is the most successful agricultural conservation program ever passed. Begun for soil protection, it created the greatest wildlife boom since the 1950s. However, the 1995 Farm Bill may curtail its success.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission completed its river otter restoration project in the spring of 1995. For the first time since the 1930s, river otters, moved from eastern counties, are again in eleven of the state's western watersheds.
Critics of the Endangered Species Act contend that animal rights take priority over those of landowners. Three state landowners whose property provides a habitat for three different species show that profit can be realized and wildlife also protected.
Restoration of the white-tail deer, which began almost fifty years ago when there were50,000 statewide, has increased the population to over 800,000. As habitats approach their carrying capacity, good management is a necessity.
Created to improve the state's wildlife management and to lobby for a separate wildlife agency, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation celebrates fifty years of service in 1995.
Between 1989 and 1995, the North Carolina Wildlife Commission transplanted otters to the state's western waterways. For the first time since the 1930s, otters are living again in eleven of the state's western watersheds.
Restoration work by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has raised the wild turkey population from 2,600 in the 1960s to 85,000 today. Restoration is complete in the mountains. Two to three years of work remain for the rest of the state.