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26553
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Maligned and misunderstood, modern hunters are under increasing scrutiny. In response to the current anti-hunting sentiment, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation is acting on several fronts to ensure that properly regulated hunting and properly managed wildlife go hand in hand.
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Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 37 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 1990, p6-7, il
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26554
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Pete Bromley is the new wildlife extension specialist at the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service, a public outreach program of land grant universities. He is in charge of activities in wildlife, inland fisheries, and aquaculture, and is developing programs in wetland and waterfowl management.
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Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 37 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 1990, p8-9, il
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9800
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The white-tailed deer population in the state is at an all-time high. Scott discusses how this happened and what needs to be done to keep the numbers up.
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26904
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John Gottschalk, counsel member of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, presented at the 37th Annual Convention of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. Wildlife managers face many challenges in this decade, including use and exploitation, disappearing petroleum resources, wetland needs, energy demands and fisheries, and the personal power plant boom.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 29 Issue 7, July 1982, p5-12
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26942
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Problems or progress in wildlife management depends on the understanding that we all have a share in the wildlife resource. Landowners, sportsmen, and citizens must all share the responsibility and the cost of actively managing the resource so that it becomes more than just a by-product or a victim of other land uses.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 29 Issue 9, Sept/Oct 1982, p4, il
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26799
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Chemists have demonstrated that a group of compounds called phyto-estrogens, found in a number of common plant species, produce in some animals the same infertile effects that the birth control pill produces in women. This discovery raises questions regarding the rate of plant extinction and implications for both humans and wildlife.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 28 Issue 3, Mar 1981, p11
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9070
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This is the second in a series describing the North Carolina Wildlife Commission's game lands. These are areas open to hunting by the public during the regular season. A special games land permit is required to hunt on these managed lands. The Northern Game Lands consist of 395, 785 acres that include Pisgah National Forest Game Land, South Mountains Game Land, Thurmond Chatham Game Land, and the Cherokee National Game Land.
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9072
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This is the fourth in a series describing the North Carolina Wildlife Commission's game lands. These are areas open to hunting by the public during the regular season. A special games land permit is required to hunt on these managed lands. The Western Game Lands, at 655,298 acres, is one of the smaller of the state's four game lands. This area includes the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests, Caney Fork, Green River, and Toxaway Lands, plus several tracts owned by Champion International Corporation.
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25946
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State wildlife agencies are being consolidated into resources within other departments across the country. Although there has been some improvement in the process between complaints and action, some argue the moves are putting wildlife behind air and water in terms of importance.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 17 Issue 1, 1974, p3
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9044
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The prime objective of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission's game lands program is to provide more hunters with more lands where they are free to go whenever the seasons are open. Amundson describes the program's eastern section, which is located in the Coastal Plains and covers over 664,512 acres that are under intensive wildlife management.
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8923
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North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has changed its big game reporting system for the for the 1972-1973 hunting season. Previously a compulsory big game tagging system was in effect for all big game killed on the Wildlife Commission's Game Lands, but did not furnish information on big game killed off the game lands. Dean discusses how the new system, a statewide voluntary tagging program, will work.
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8884
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In June 1969, the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base received the Secretary of Defense Conservation Award, which is presented annually to the armed forces installation which has organized the best program for conservation of natural resources. In 1969, 241 military installations competed for the award. The wildlife management program includes food plots, small game strips, plantings for doves, experimental woody stock plantings, green-tree duck impoundment, and predator control.
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6786
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In Part 2 of his discussion of management problems of North Carolina's wild turkey population, Gooden discusses turkey hunting laws and possible revisions; illegal hunting; misconceptions about raising turkeys in captivity and using them for restocking; and turkey diseases caused by the use of certain fertilizers in fields where turkeys forage.
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6630
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In the early 1950s, the carp population in Lake Mattamuskeet was destroying natural waterfowl food-plants which were necessary for migratory birds that winter at the lake. Cahoon discusses the removal of the carp, the prevention of their reentry into the lake, and the effects of the removal.
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38496
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A summary of North Carolina wildlife programs since 1947, including regulations, protections, management, education, research, and finance and personnel policy.