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As the weather warms and folks spend more time outside across Western North Carolina, more people will start finding wild animals that look like they ve been abandoned.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, which fields thousands of calls each spring about animals believed to be in danger or abandoned, is urging folks to leave those animals alone, as most often, well-meaning people do more harm than good, biologists say.
When people see fawns or baby rabbits that have apparently been abandoned, the mother is most often off feeding nearby, and will return when there are no predators around, including humans, Falyn Owens, extension biologist at the Wildlife Commission, said in a statement.
A single river may see only a few individuals, while others may have thousands of migratory fish per year. From the earliest times, pre-Colonial days into the 20th century, river herring, sturgeon and eels have been considered an important food source, often eagerly awaited after harsh winters.
Alewife and blueback herring
River herring are actually two distinct species, the alewife and the blueback, but the two are so closely related as to be almost indistinguishable. So, the common name river herring is generally used for both.
River herring are anadromous, meaning that they feed in saltwater most of their life, but return to freshwater to reproduce. They are found along the entire East Coast, ranging from Nova Scotia to the St. Johns River in northern Florida and migrating up and down the coast with the change of seasons.
National Park Service South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Regional Director Leopoldo Miranda-Castro signed Wednesday a record of decision for a sediment management framework environmental impact statement at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The National Park Service’s selected alternative B. Under this alternative, the park service could permit other agencies and municipalities to conduct, with conditions, sediment management in the form of oceanside and soundside beach nourishment, filling island breaches, and dune restoration, according to documents. This alternative would also recognize that park service and others may independently or in partnership restore beach habitats or periodically protect specific facilities or resources through sediment placement in areas that have been affected by erosion.
On feeding bears
Regarding âBears are becoming more common in NCâ (May 3), the article contains steps people can take to coexist with black bears.
The first step, as most of us know, is donât feed bears. Feeding teaches bears to view humans as a food source, which is not a good thing, for us or for them.
The article failed to mention that North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) allows hunters to feed bears. It is legal to feed bears for six weeks in the 25 mountain counties and year-round elsewhere. Hunters bait bears with corn, usually, and shoot them at the bait during open season.
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