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Art club helps w2th 4-H project
Perquimans County High School
Art Club members, Darby Ward and
lawph While share their artistic tal
ents aa they paint a backdrop which
win be part of a State 4-H Fair Booth
According to the club's advisor Mrs
Joan Wood, club members partici
pate in a number of community serv
ice projects such as the State 4-H
Pair Exhibit, Special Olympics, and
taking artwork to area nursing
homes. Club members also do art
projects for school faculty and will
soon be displaying some of their work
around the community.
4-H leaders, 4-H members and
other community volunteers are also
helping to construct the exhibit that
will be on display at the N.C. State
Fair, Oct. 1M5, 1917.
Nature conservancy receives grant
Nags Head, NC? The Nature Con
servancy today accepted a $20,000
Challenge Grant for Powerline Re
search from North Carolina Power.
The grant will help fund a poten
tially far-reaching five-year project
at North Carolina Power's Transmis
sion right-of-way through the Conser
vancy's Nags Head Woods Preserve.
The project aims to develop environ
mentally sound management meth
ods and a more attractive natural ap
pearance for the company's
powerline corridors in both urban
and rural areas.
"Development of plantings along
our transmission rights-of-way that
do not require maintenance will not
only help to preserve the environ
ment, it will save money for North
Carolina Power and its customers.
The methods developed could be
equally valuable to other utilities,"
said North Carolina Power Jack H.
Ferguson.
The 780-acre Nags Head Woods
preserve is bisected by a 50-foot wide
powerline right-of-way that tradition
ally was clear-cut by the company
with heavy machinery that often de
nuded the sandy habitat. In 1982 Pre
serve Staff and Volunteers took over
management using hand tools and
volunteer manpower to maintain the
line in accordance with company
safety standards.
Using the funds provided by North
Carolina Power and others, re
searchers will experiment with a
number of techniques aimed at ma
naging "danger" plant species
(those that grow to heights that
threaten the safety of lines and poles)
with less effort and without major
damage to the integrity of the natural
habitat. The Conservancy will work
towards using native plants to estab
lish a self-maintaining U-shaped cor
ridor where taller trees on the right
of-way edge taper down to shrubs
and ? grasses in the center where
maintenance vehicles must pass.
"The preserve shelters a number
of rare and endangered plants and
animals," Henrietta List, Nags Head
Woods Preserve Steward, added,
"including 13 birds that are threat
ened or of special concern in North
Carolina. By working to enhance the
right-of-way habitat, we give these
creatures a better chance of survival
and our visitors a better environment
for recreation and education. If we
can make natural management work
here, it will work in suburban and
other wildlife areas as well."
The Nags Head Woods is one of
1,060 nature preserves owned and
managed by the Nature Conser
vancy, an international membership
organization committed to the global
preservation of natural diversity To
date, the conservancy and its mem
bers, 5,000 of whom reside in North
Carolina, have been responsible for
the protection of nearly three million
acres of natural land in all 50 states,
Canada, Latin America, and the Ca
ribbean.
From North Carolina Headquar
ters based in Chapel Hill, the Conser
vancy manages 22 nature preserves
across the state, including Nags
Head Woods, and has helped to pro
tect more than 290,186 acres since
1974.
Commission sets waterfowl season
Raleigh? The N.C. Wildlife Re
sources Commission on Monday re
quested federal 1987-88 waterfowl
regulations which would include a
three-segment duck season and allow
Canada goose hunting east of Inter
state 96 only.
The following waterfowl seasons
were selected from the options made
available by the U.S. Fish and Wild
life Service:
DUCKS: Oct. 1-3, Nov. 26-28 and
Dec. 14 through Jan. 16; bag limit of
four daily. The Canvasback season
will be closed this year.
SEA DUCKS: Oct. 2 through Jan
16; bag limit of seven daily.
SNOW GEESE: Nov. 2 through
Jan. 30; bag limit of four daily.
CANADA GEESE: Dec. 31 through
Jan. 16; bag limit of one daily. The
Canada goose season will be closed
west of Interstate 95.
BRANT: Dec. 18 through Jan. 16;
bag limit of two daily.
TUNDRA SWANS: Nov. 2 through
Jan. 30 for permit holders only. Six
thousand permits will be issued by a
random drawing authorizing each
person holding a permit to harvest
one tundra swan.
Persons who wish to be included in
the swan permit drawing should mail
a 3x5 index card or post card with
complete name, address, hunting li
cense number and social security
number to SWAN PERMITS, N.C.
Wildlife Resources Commission, 512
N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, N.C. 27611.
The Commission's recommended
duck season includes a Thanksgiving
hunt and an early October season
which will allow better wood duck
hunting.
"An early October season will al
low utilization of the state-produced
wood ducks that normally leave the
state before the later waterfowl sea
sons are open." said Hal Atkinson,
chief of the Division of Wildlife Man
agement. "The Thanksgiving seg
ment opens when North Carolina's
duck population is low. During that
time, the early migrants have moved
through the state and many late mi
grants have not arrived. But Thanks
giving is a time when many sports
men like to take their children
hunting, since the weather is pleas
ant and schools are closed.
"Blue-winged teal move through
the state during late September and
early October, and offer the best
sporting opportunities in early Octo
ber," Atkinson said.
Snow geese are not abundant until
after mid-November and the long 90
day season option allows hunting op
port unities during the population
peak. The late January period proba
bly offers the greatest opportunity
for success for snow goose hunters.
Commissioners approved a recom
mendation by the Wildlife Manage
ment staff to close the Canada goo6e
season west of Interstate 96.
"The western flock in North Caro
lina is at a critically low stage," At
kinson told the Commission. "Most
Canada geese wintering west of 1-95
are associated with the Tennessee
Valley population of the Mississippi
Flyway."
Banding data on these birds indi
cate a decline in the flocks migrating
to western North Carolina. Northern
and southern states in the Atlantic
Flyway Council are taking steps to
rebuild those populations. The Com
mission's participation in that re
population effort is to close the sea
son west of 1-95.
Revival planned
Revival will begin at Poole's Grove
Baptist Church, Monday night, Sep
tember 21st through 25th and will be
gin each night at 7:30 p.m.
Music will be rendered by area
choirs.
The public is invited.
?e?be" ?arby Ward and Joseph White are seen painting a back drop for the 4-H club
booth at the North Carolina State Fair.
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