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PAGE 8 ■HE " ' 1 THE YANCEY JOURNAL AUGUST 19 1976 Wildlife Crews Clear Openings For Game ildltfe IVfanauement Tech practice being carried out by |phe North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is the mowing of developed fields and log roads. The Burnsville i Wildlife Management crew is respon sible for the management and development work on the Pisgah Game Lands in Bun-p combe, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey Coun ties. Recently the Wildlife crew completed mowing 259.4 acres of fields and 83.5 miles of seeded log roads. These fields and roads are a result of several practices. Among these practices are completed logging operations, the old management area program, lands purchased or leased with fields or roads and fields cleared cooperatively with the U.S. Forest Service. ' These openings are clear ed and maintained for the benefit of all game and non-game species of wildlife. The wild turkey uses these openings for besting in the edges of fields or roads or at large grass clumps. They use openings extensively for brooding sites by bringing their young in these for sunlight and collecting insects which provide protein needed by these your.g birds at this time. In addition to sunlight < and insects, other foods are , taken such as young grasses, seeds and berries. Small < gravels are picked up for the turkey’s crop and bare spots < of ground provide dusting ( sites. Deer depend on such ! openings for food when .seasonal or yearly food TRT3? \ JUljm . I MRS. NORA HOPSON ’ Mrs. Nora Hopson, 70, of the Green Mountain Com munity of Yancey County, died Tuesday morning in an / Asheville hospital from injur- \ ies received in an automobile *■ accident August 2. A native of j Yancey County, she was a ' daughter of the late Rev. James and Cora Hampton J Deyton. 1 Surviving are the hus- I band, Clifford Hopson; six !■ daughters, Mrs. Orvile Engle I' of Erwin, Tenn., Mrs. Fred I Hensley and Mrs. RonnieJ| Peterson of Burnsville. Mrs. V Dee Hensley of Green Moun- I tain, Mrs. Marvin Rickman of 1 Prinston, W. Va., and Mrs. 1 Gerald Pendley of Spruce Pine; six sons, Harley Hopson of Jonesboro, Tenn., Herbert and Clifton Hopson Jr. of Green Mountain, Howard Hopson of Corpus Christi, Texas, Norman Hopson of Burnsville and Carl Hopson of Lakeland, Florida; four sisters Mrs. Clyde Engle, Mrs. Glennia Williams, Mrs. Stan ley Parkey and Mrs. Avery Foster of Erwin, Tenn.; two brothers, Harvey and Fithew Deyton of Erwin; 33 grand chijdren and two great grand children. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in North Bend Free Will Baptist Church of which she was a member. Tlje Revs. Carmi Price and Stanley McMahan officiated and burial was in the Peterson Hill Cemetery. TOMMY H. HARRIS Tommy H. Harris, 22, of the Bolens Creek Community of Yancey County died Satur day night in an Asheville hospital from injuries receiv ed Friday night, August 13, in an automobile accident in Burnsville. A native and lifelong resident of Yancey County, he was a 1972 graduate of East Yancey High School and was employed by Burnsville Vet erinary Clinic. Surviving are the parents, Harold L. and Wilma King Harris; a sister, Miss Chris tine Harris of the home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe King and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Lena Harris, all of ' Burnsville. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Bolens Creek Baptist Church of which he was a member. Rev. C.W. Britt and Dr. Joseph Godwin officiated and burial was in the Carroway I Cemetery, I *||§£ll9r w, • • .. r W'' : v. - ' : ; shortages occur such as mast pick clovers .„d grasses for green forage which they use heavily in the winter months. The hunter realizes shooting access and often finds grouse localized at these openings. Bear,' raccoon and foxes use these openings for sea sonal foods such as blackber- ties, blueberries, pokeber- ■ "flic act mr chucSroast mm&Exs mi# ElllL^l jH A VjB CHUCK STEAKS ISKiKH 1 T fl «|Skl w FRANKS*mo<WA Gf 1 BfICON w *\r*WlTmM W I ftCKLES r > 1/l/n > C-RvL jwlßßfiL {gfsSSSS} HS? |SMOKO)MEffiS&4%B^fecED Pliiii (XJttbgecHcese 39* TC 32P 1 It ■ I mßy j/y^ H «■— SBaWII cftKe Mixes 5Jk ice cream cones \9oßnSa fe; II Jvfe® dA |p S 59i UJHITE gREfIP 3M* WEL*-. | viMas dtmk *w* I nWifSSIOim Bmfommmrnr pfEgESK *I oofrtoo tdmwdes 41* £gfggg % « • ' *' * : - • rie^ 4 sassafras berries, au turirn olives, sumac, mountain ash. grasses and clovers. Usually these foods exist in the fields or along field edges and along log road edges. Squirrels find dogwood berries abundant along field and log road-edges where the trees have been subject to more sunlight. Other small game such as rabbits and quail use these "■ ? + . •• - ■ openings for cover and feed , on grasses, clovers and seeds. , Non-game and even en i dkngered species of wildlife 5 * use these openings for food and cover. Hawks and eagles I catch rodents, snakes, rabbits [ and other prey. Box turtles ; and snakes catch insects and i skunks catch insects, snakes and dig box turtle eggs. ; Songbirds are often found ► using these openings for i nesting, tood anta cover. . •—i Wildlife Management con siders “game as a crop which > nature will grow if we provide i the seed and a suitable s environment. The mowing of > fields and seeded log roads is > one of many management 1 practices carried out to » enhance the environment for wildlife. The efforts of the 1 commission are to provide more sport for more people. | MTI Credits Transferable i I? „ j I i/t iij e. *S iCont’d from page 1] ail or most of MTI general education courses for transfer credit are Western Carolina University, Campbell College, Elon College, Atlantic Chris tian College, St. Andrews College, and N.C. Wesleyan College. This expansion in MTFs program offerings means that residents of the tri-county ■ area now mav conveniently earn a substantial number of credits toward a Bachelor’s degree while living at home. Agreements with other four-year colleges are being worked out,, and further announcements will be made. Students wishing to transfer to colleges other than those listed above may make transfer arrangements on an individual basis. The Director of General Education at MTT is prepared to assist sudb students in determining whai course credit will transfer. General education course* being offered this Call at Mil include Introduction to Litera ture, Art Appreciation, cal Science 1, College Mathe matics, Introduction to Psjfi chology, and World Civiliza tion I.
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