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 #:

4594

Author(s):

Ellis, Harry; Not Given

Abstract:

North America has more species of salamanders, 110, than any other place in the world. The southern Appalachians are famous worldwide for their salamanders that have lived there millions of years. At least 34 species have been identified there. Ellis describes the variations in the salamanders and discusses how geography played a part in their evolutionary development.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 5, May 1999, p10-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Record #:

4595

Author(s):

Gannon, Renee

Abstract:

Since 1970, when the last setter took top honors, pointers have dominated the national field trial circuit. Now Ida O Priscilla, an English setter born in Kernersville in 1993, seeks to return glory to setterdom. A winner of the North Carolina Open Quail Championship and the Tar Heel Open Championship, Ida O narrowly missed winning the national championship in 1998. With five years of competition remaining, Ida O Priscilla's future is bright.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 5, May 1999, p24-27, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Field trial dogs--Kernersville; Setters (Dogs); North Carolina, Southern coastland--Description and travel

Record #:

4596

Author(s):

McDowell, Bodie

Abstract:

A $4.3 million grant from the Natural Heritage Trust enabled the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to purchase six additional game lands tracts totaling 14,000 acres. The largest tract was the 5,784-acre Van Swamp located in Beaufort and Washington Counties. Others tracts were located in Hayward, Caldwell, Wilkes, Avery, Rutherford, and Ashe counties. The purchases add land to the game lands program and provide more acreage for hunting, fishing, and recreation.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p34, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Nature conservation; North Carolina Natural Heritage Trust Fund; Recreation areas

Record #:

4597

Author(s):

Lynch, Ida Phillips

Abstract:

In the remote mountains of Western Carolina, a combination of high local rainfall, steep river and stream gradients, and erosion have carved the Jocassee Gorges. The greatest waterfall concentration in eastern North America is found there. Biologists have been coming to explore the rare plant life since French botanist Andre Michaux visited the area in 1788. Although not as fully explored as the plants, a variety of animals inhabits the area, including sixteen species of salamanders.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 5, May 1999, p4-9, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jocassee Gorges; Natural resources--North Carolina, Western

Record #:

4598

Author(s):

Ellis, Harry

Abstract:

Why are so few dead creatures - mice, shrews, moles, birds, chipmunks, and others - not seen in the woodlands? The answer is the burying beetle, or more formally, Nictophores tomentosus. When the sun goes down, these beetles go to work, locating and burying the dead. Creatures the size of a mouse can be buried in two to three hours. Pollution is eliminated, and raw materials return to the soil to nourish plant growth. Nineteen species of beetles work in North Carolina.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 8, Aug 1999, p24-27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Burying beetles

Record #:

4599

Author(s):

Beane, Jeff

Abstract:

Herpetologists catch and study reptiles and amphibians. Jeff Beane, Herpetology Collections Manager at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, in Raleigh, discusses his work.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 8, Aug 1999, p28-31, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Beane, Jeff; Herpetologists--Raleigh

Record #:

4600

Author(s):

Almy, Gerald A.

Abstract:

Of all the things needed to successfully hunt deer - shooting skill, equipment, outdoor knowledge - the most important is finding deer signs and being able to interpret them. Almy describes deer signs, including droppings, beds, tracks, feed areas, and rubs, and what they mean.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 9, Sept 1999, p8-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Deer hunting

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 #:

4602

Author(s):

Powell, Chris

Abstract:

The auditorium in the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education near Brevard was named in honor of the late Beatrice H. Barsantee. Born in 1907, Barsantee, a resident of Hendersonville, left one-fourth of her estate to the North Carolina Wildlife Commission for the purpose of conservation education. The money helped start the center, which is now in its fifth year of educating the public about wildlife.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p32, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Barsantee, Beatrice H., 1906-1983; Environmental education--Brevard; Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education

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 #:

4604

Author(s):

Powell, Chris

Abstract:

Wisconsin Tissue plans to build a $180 million paper mill on the Roanoke River near Weldon are on hold. Chesapeake Corp. has decided to sell controlling interest in Wisconsin Tissue to Georgia-Pacific Corp. The hold is welcome news to environmentalists, biologists, and fishermen who questioned placing the mill on the river. The river's striped bass population was restored in 1997, and the mill's planned discharge of nine million gallons of wastewater per day had a potential impact on the river's resources.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 9, Sept 1999, p33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Environmental protection--Roanoke River; Paper mills--Roanoke River; Wisconsin Tissue

Record #:

4605

Author(s):

Powell, Chris

Abstract:

Just hours after receiving the call for help, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission deployed 128 wildlife officers and 60 boats to help with rescue efforts during Hurricane Flood's flooding. The officers logged 7,877 man-hours and rescued over 1,000 flood victims. Officers also patrolled areas to prevent looting. In Greenville their help was critical in helping keep power on in the city.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 12, Dec 1999, p32, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

4606

Author(s):

Spivey, Phil

Abstract:

The diamondback turtle has survived for thousands of years, but the 19th- and 20th centuries challenged its existence. In the 19th-century, over-harvesting depleted fisheries to satisfy gourmet tastes for turtle meat. In the 20th-century, lost crab pots entrap and kill the turtles, while sprawling coastal development destroys its habitat. It is this loss of habitat that threatens the diamondback most in the 21st-century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 2, Feb 2000, p10-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Diamondback terrapin; Reptile populations