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25920
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A small town of about 600 persons in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Highlands, North Carolina received the Keep American Beautiful, Inc. Special Merit Awared for its environmental program.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1973, p8
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25921
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Dare County, North Carolina recently received a Keep American Beautiful, Inc. Speical Merit Award for its Operation Cleansweep program. The community program, which is aided by civic clubs, Girl and Boys Scouts, and garden clubs, is designed to carry out litter-prevention activities throughout the county.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1973, p8
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25922
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Despite the appropriation of funds, TVA announced it will discontinue plans to plans to build a system of 14 dams and reservoirs along the Upper French Broad River basin in Western North Carolina. Although TVA believed the plans’ aims to provide local economic benefits would be successful in the long term, the communities of the affected counties were no longer supportive at all levels.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1973, p9
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25923
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The Forsyth Wildlife Club bought seven acres of land near Salem Lake in 1959 with th eintention of turning it into a clubhouse or nature preserve; however, the plans have not come to fruition. Recently, the remaining officers of the Club have deeded the land to the North Carolina Wildlife Federation who will use it as a source of income for their scholarship program.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1973, p10
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25924
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The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission recently surprise voted to remove Executive Director Clyde P. Patton from his position followed a controversial political power play. Newspapers across North Carolina react to the news of this removal, which was personally appealed by the Governor-Elect.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1973, p14-24
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25925
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Recent road construction has caused major siltation of the Thompson River in Transylvania County, North Carolina, virtually destroying the river as a trout habitat. Despite Thompson Rivers’classification as a ‘native’ stream, considered one of the best streams in the state, siltation has caused irreparable damage to the environment.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p5
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25926
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A two part program by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is undeway to improve the striped bass population in the Tarheel waters by stocking fingerling fish.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p6
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25927
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Research in the commercial fishing industry of trout and catfish has provided for better sport fishing of these species. Supplemental feeding is gaining momentum as a method of helping fish reach their optimal size, especially in water impoundments such as ponds and lakes.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p6-7, il
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25928
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Located near the center of North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Morehead City is the home to numerous commerical sport fishing enterprises. A recent report by the Coastal Zone Resources Coporation for the State of North Carolina presents findings on the nature and magnitude of the economic impacts from these enterprises. Charter boats, fishing piers, boat storage and other rented space accounts for about $1.4 million in direct and indirect contributions to the state economy.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p10
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25929
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In 1972 the US Department of Agriculture intercepted aout 40,000 major plant pests at US ports of entry, setting a new record and keeping US agriculture and lifestock safe from potentially serious diseases and high costs of eradication.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p11
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25930
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Carolina Power and Light Co. have recently asked North Carolina to discharge water into a reservoir that is considered hotter than normally allowed for discharge. The water, to be discharged in the lake at the $1.1 billion Wake County nuclear power plant facility, would raise the temperature more than 30 degree, 25 degrees above what is allowed by the State. State biologists however, are concerned about the affect of the thermal discharges on plant and animal life in the reservoir.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p11
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25931
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The American Cyanamid Company of Savannah, Georgia has come under fire for their pollutant dumping into the Savannah River. However, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia officials have joined in an opposition to the company’s request for extending their actions, citing endangering the Gulf Stream which would have an effect on ocean waters along each of these states’ coasts.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Spring 1973, p12
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25932
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R. Wayne Bailey of Milton, North Carolina has recently received one fo the 1973 American Motors Conservation Awards which are presented to those dedicated to the efforts in the field of renewable natural resources. Bailey, a biology with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, is a pioneer in developing progressive management and restoration programs for wild turkey.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Summer 1973, p3
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25933
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The National Forest Service has recently issued a statement that will regulate and limit the use of off-road vehicles on Forest Service Lands. States like North Carolina are implementing the regulations in order to prevent issues with erosion, wildlife interference, and plant destruction that arise from off-road vehicle use.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Summer 1973, p3
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25934
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Fifteen states, including North Carolina, face major reductions in staffing and maintenance of their wildlife refuge systems. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in the Department of the Interior is struggling to provide funds for the 342 wildlife refuges within the United States while also attempting to aquired over 46 million acres of new wildlife refuge area in Alaska.
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Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Summer 1973, p5