Field Notes is the periodic newsletter of the North Carolina Ecological Services Offices

Summer 2008(.pdf 1.96 MB)
Evans Road fire burns on Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Fire on Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge stresses wildlife
NC employees recognized at regional director's awards ceremony
NWR's in NC contribute $721,000 to county budgets
Biologists work to keep rare fish off endangered species list
Red wolf howlings begin
Biologists meet to discuss transition to a SHC approach
Bat numbers rise, but mysterious illness still poses threat
USFWS working with Haywood leaders on development issues
6th graders participate in outreach program
Granville County family recognized by forest landbird legacy program
North Carolina beach vitex task force recevies planning grant
Decrepit dams to be removed to Toe River valley
Development agreement results in improved and protected habitat
Helping media understand drought's wildlife impacts
North Carolina high school students search for endangered mussel
NC Birding Trail Piedmont region of the trail opens
Safe Harbor program to be featured in a book on conservation successes

Fall 2007 (.pdf 928 KB)
North Carolina passes legislation protecting refuges from landfill siting impacts
Back from the brink - The red wolf recovery program wins nation's top wildlife conservation award
Winter 2008 magazine dedicated to red wolf
Red wolf exhibit update
Students focus on aquatic ecosystem
Troy Wilson joins Asheville Field Office
Bat bioloigsts descend on Eastern Tennessee
Publications advance understanding of freshwater mussel sensitivity to pollutants
Regional team visits partners and coastal program sites in North Carolina
New web-based conservation tool for North Carolina
The Service responds to Balsam Mountain Preserve dam break
Fungicide contaminates endangered mussel habitat in Mills River
Biologists chart a course for management of high elevation communities
Service gives nearly $50,000 to Yancey and Mitcheel counties in North Carolina for stream restoration
Addressing aquatic wildlife passage in the LIttle Tennessee River basin
Service praises decision to remove Dillsboro Dam
Collapsed railroad trestle removed from endangered mussel habitat
Chatham conservation partnership comes to life
Workshop yeilds new population of endangered Schweinitz's sunflower
2007 nesting season for imperiled coastal wildlife species

Summer 2007 (.pdf 660 KB)
Service celebrates Rachel Carson 100th
Biologists come together on Rafinesque's big-eared bat
Agencies meet to discuss long-term transportation planning
Wolf exhibit open at Pocosin Lakes
Professional guides hone skill in NC
Perils of propagation - how plant lovers can help protect rare plants
The city of Boiling Springs Lakes and its partners receive planning grant
NC birding trail coastal Plain trail now open
Fish weir instolled on Little River where Lowell Dam removed
Raleigh staff works to provide buffers around wildlife refuges
Asheville Service employees honored by DOI
Asheville biologist leaves Service
Rash of river impoundments altering WNC landscape

Winter 2007 (.pdf 1 MB)
FWS director visits Pocosin Lakes Natioinal Wildlife Refuge and Makes Statement at Navy OLF meeting
N.C. Federal Junior Duck Stamp competition best of show winner
$240,000 to help restore imperieled rare fish
Plight of the catspaw mussel
Mattamuskeet video available
Southeastern biologists and engineers look at aquatic life passage issues
Wetland restoration partnership to benefit water quality and wildife in eastern North Carolina
Group forms to help conserve Cape Fear arch
Conservation in Chatham County
Bryant Farm riparian restoratioin in Chatham County
Yadkin, Yadkin-Pee Dee hydropower licensing update
Landowners joins fight against invasive plants
Transportation agency strives to protect endangered plant
Endangered mussel population declining
UNCA student tracking growth in six-county region
Community takes a look at where they want to go

Fall 2006 (.pdf 557 KB)
Leathernecks saving leatherbacks
Workshops look at protecting aquatic habitat
New technology keeps tabs on bats
Contaminants biologists - here to help with your pollution questions
Biologist becomes NRLI fellow
Service completes review of Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout protected species management plans
Piping plover critical habitat proposed
Possible dam removal on horizon
Harperella reintroduced into the Deep River area
Future of Goose Creek heelsplitters till in flux
Rare plants find new home at Grandfather Mountain
Rare Plant identification workshop
Organizations team up to tackle Roan Mountain
Spreading the word
Small-whorled pogonia discovery and possible loss

Summer 2006 (.pdf 548 KB)
What Ecological Services Does
Hydropower relicensing updates
North Carolina Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art Competition
Freshwater Mussels'Pollution Tolerance Studied
Making Way for the Mountain Sweet Pitcher Plant
Hundreds of Students Hear Conservation message
2005-2006 lecture series concludes
Beginning of new population of rare sunflower
New Carolina heelsplitter popuation found
Progress Energy joins Natual Heritage Program in protecting rare plant sites
Red-cockaded woodpecker recovery on Ft. Bragg
Creation of fish ladder o Lake Phelps
North Carolina Sandhills coservation partnership summit