Massive flooding in western North Carolina damaged trout streams in 16 counties; however, continuing efforts at flood control may also pose a threat to the trout populations by destroying the habitat.
North Carolina’s coastal islands, like Smith Island, are the perfect spots for coastal birds, loggerhead turtles, and numerous other sea and land creatures, as well as a trip to see the splendor of marshes and beaches.
A new program, Renewed Emphasis Now on an Environmental for Wildlife (RENEW), helps farmers prepare parts of their land for improving populations of small game animals.
In Pitt and Beaufort counties, clean up of Chicod Creek has begun with a combination of volunteers with the NCWF, NCWRC, Natural Defense Council, Soil Conservation Service, and Corps of Engineers.
Project crossing striped bass with white bass has been underway in several lakes in North Carolina. Young of year hybrids have been sampled in two of the four study lakes and growth rates have been well-established.
New federal water policies have been released which concentrate heavily on the activities of the Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Tennessee Valley authority, and the Soil Conservation Service.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is conducting a project to assess if the introduction of river herring into Lake Phelps will have an effect on other fish populations.
The Roanoke-Chowan Wildlife Club is working to breathe new life into the old grist mill located near Tunis. Club members are working together to clean up the mill and surrounding area, rehabilitating the water turbine and stone wheel.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has begun making squirrel dens on several tracts of game land in the hopes of increasing the populations.
Hybrid bass have been stocked at Lake Higgins. These fish, a cross between striped bass and white bass, have a fast growth rate and will reach appropriate size in two years.
The Cape Fear River drainage system has received some new inhabitants when the NCWRC stocked it River and some of its tributaries with 32,000 spotted bass fingerlings.