Record #:

4607

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission purchased the 547-acre Horse Creek Longleaf Pine Forest in Moore County recently to add to its Sandhills Game Land. The purchase not only protects the longleaf pine, but also provides a habitat for red-cockaded woodpeckers. Only 3 percent of the original 90 million acres of longleaf pine that covered the Southeast remains today. The longleaf is a favored tree of the woodpeckers, which nest in tree cavities.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 2, Feb 2000, p32, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Red-cockaded woodpecker--Sandhills (Ga. and N.C.); Wildlife conservation--Sandhills

Record #:

4608

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

The North Carolina Botanical Garden named the eastern aromatic aster North Carolina Wildflower of the Year for 2000. This uncommon plant grows in only two western counties and blooms in early October. The wildflower program is in its 19th year.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 2, Feb 2000, p33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wildflowers; Asters

Record #:

4609

Author(s):

Powell, Chris

Abstract:

How much is a fishing season worth to local economies? A survey requested by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission revealed that during the 1998 Roanoke River striped bass season anglers spent about $918,000. The season lasts 75 days. Local economies benefited through money spent on lodging, food, gas, and bait. Eighteen hundred questionnaires were distributed to fishermen, of which six hundred were returned.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 2, Feb 2000, p33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Striped bass fisheries--Roanoke River; Striped bass fishing--Roanoke River

Record #:

4610

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Eastern North Carolina received 23 inches of rain in two weeks, half of the yearly total, from Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd. The result was a flood of mammoth proportions. Experts also blame man's altering the landscape as a prime cause of the flooding. Earley describes natural landscapes and floods; altered landscapes and floods; and altered landscapes and Hurricane Floyd.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000, p9-12 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

4611

Author(s):

Powell, Chris

Abstract:

When floods caused by Hurricane Floyd inundated Eastern Carolina, 128 North Carolina Wildlife Enforcement officers responded to calls for help from local communities. They came with a variety of shallow-draft boats and heavy-duty patrol boats and the know-how to use them in hazardous situations. Wildlife officers rescued over 1,200 people. A number of them share their experiences of these trying days.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000, p17-20 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

4612

Author(s):

Kornegay, Pete

Abstract:

Native Americans and early colonists knew winter was ending when American shad arrived in Eastern Carolina rivers. However, this once plentiful fish has all but disappeared from the Roanoke River. Dams for flood control and electricity keep shad from going far up river to spawn. Water pollution could also be a problem with industries and municipalities discharging into the river. Biologists are seeking the solution that will return the shad to the Roanoke River in the twenty-first century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 2, Feb 2000, p16-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Shad fisheries--Roanoke River; Shad fishing--Roanoke River

Record #:

4613

Author(s):

Foushee, Rodney

Abstract:

The floods resulting from Hurricane Floyd's deluge were North Carolina's greatest natural disaster. Foushee assesses the impact the floods had on wildlife, fisheries, and the Pamlico Sound.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000, p3-9 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

4614

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill; Saxon, John L.

Abstract:

The red-cockaded woodpecker has been on the endangered species list since 1970. In 1999, the North Carolina Department of Transportation purchased 9,732 acres in northeastern Tyrrell County for $16.5 million to establish a preserve. Currently 18 woodpecker colonies live there. The land is heavily forested and fronts the Albemarle Sound and Little Alligator River. Over the next 7 years the department will set aside $175 million for wetlands preservation, stream restoration, and wildlife protection.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 7, July 1999, p33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Endangered species; Wildlife management--Tyrrell County; Red-cockaded woodpecker--Tyrrell County

Record #:

4615

Author(s):

Foushee, Rodney; Ward, Ann Brinn

Abstract:

A proposal by Wisconsin Tissue to build a $180 million paper mill on the Roanoke River near Weldon has raised environmental concerns among biologists, environmentalists, and fishermen. The planned discharge of 9 million gallons of wastewater per day into the river threatens the river's booming striped bass population, which was declared recovered in 1997. A number of species also live next to the mill site. Wisconsin Tissue will submit an environmental impact study.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 7, July 1999, p32, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Environmental protection--Roanoke River; Statesville--History--20th century; Children--Social conditions--20th century

Record #:

4616

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Over 5 percent (11,129) of all traffic accidents reported in North Carolina in 1997 involved deer/vehicle collisions. The majority of these occurred in the eastern half of the state. Hyde County, for example, reported that deer were involved in 40 percent of all accidents. Half of this kind of accident typically occurs in fall and early winter, and 75 percent happens between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. About 8 percent of drivers are injured, but most of the damage is sustained by the deer and the vehicle.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 8, Aug 1999, p32, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Deer; Traffic safety and wildlife; Traffic accidents

Record #:

4617

Author(s):

McDowell, Bodie

Abstract:

A rule change by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for the 1999-2000 hunting season required hunters to record their harvests on a Big Game Harvest Report Card instead of tagging wild turkey, bear, deer, and boar as in past seasons. The Division of Wildlife Management uses this data to determine a species population status before it sets bag limits for the next season.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 9, Sept 1999, p32, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Game--Laws and legislation; Wildlife management

Record #:

4622

Author(s):

Kemp, Karen

Abstract:

Built in 1879, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science existed for over a century in cramped quarters. Now the Raleigh museum has moved into a 200,000-square-foot, $71 million structure that is being called the premier natural science museum in the Southeast.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 5, May 2000, p4-9, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; Museums--Raleigh

Record #:

4623

Author(s):

Hairr, John

Abstract:

In 1789, North Carolina gave its western lands, which eventually became the state of Tennessee, to the federal government to settle debts. Starting in April 1799, a survey party struggled through this wilderness area for five weeks to mark the boundary between the two states. The surveyors, John Strother and Robert Henry, left notebooks that give a picture of what this area was like two hundred years ago.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 5, May 2000, p22-27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--1775-1865; North Carolina--Surveys

Record #:

4626

Author(s):

Arrington, Joel

Abstract:

The red drum is North Carolina's state fish. Once a highly prized game fish, overfishing and pollution have reduced its numbers. To restore them, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries set strict new regulations, including reducing the daily catch from five to one. Arrington compares the red drum's situation now to the way it used to be earlier in the 20th-century.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 8, Aug 1999, p8-11, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Channel bass--Outer Banks; Channel bass fisheries--Outer Banks; Channel bass fishing--Outer Banks

Record #:

4627

Author(s):

Dickson, Charles

Abstract:

Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since prehistoric times. In the United States the greatest concentration of medicinal plants is in the Southern Appalachians, where plants were used at first by the Native Americans and early settlers. Modern medicine still uses many today, such as foxglove, for digitalis to treat heart trouble; witch hazel, used in cosmetics; and goldenseal, an ingredient in eye drop preparations.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 63 Issue 8, Aug 1999, p18-23, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Medicinal plants--Southern Appalachians