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A last-minute change to North Carolina Farm Bill maintains NCWRC as the authority on farms that raise and hold penned deer, elk, moose, and axis.

Last-minute change to proposed bill keeps NCWRC in control of deer farm oversight

A huge outpouring of opposition from North Carolina hunters and other sportsmen led to a section of the N.C. Farm Bill of 2015-16 that would have shifted oversight of deer farms from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services being stripped from the bill on Thursday. […]

These hunting and fishing events are all family-friendly, and most of them are free of charge.

NCWRC holding family-friendly hunting and fishing events this weekend

NCWRC Release

Learn more about fishing, hunting and wildlife conservation this weekend as nine family-friendly events supported by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission get underway. […]

Archery is just one topic that will be covered at the outdoor programs at Brevard.

NCWRC holds September outdoor programs in Brevard

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is offering several outdoor events and programs in September at its Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Transylvania County. […]

A Bladen County public dove field has been closed due to baiting.

NCWRC closes Bladen Lake State Forest dove field indefinitely

North Carolina Sportsman

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has closed a dove field on the Bladen Lake State Forest Game Land to hunting until further notice. […]

North Carolina dove hunters can take to the fields this year the morning of Sept. 5, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend.

Dove season will open Saturday of Labor Day weekend as NCWRC sets seasons

North Carolina Sportsman

Dove hunters will open the 2015 season on a Saturday for the first time in several years after the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission announced season dates for dove and other webless migratory game birds, as well as September seasons for Canada geese and teal. […]

A lot of North Carolina deer hunters would like to have had a shot at these two does; the 2014-15 harvest was off 18 percent, or 44,000 deer.

Deer harvest is off 18 percent over 2013-14, NCWRC announces

Craig Holt

North Carolina hasn’t experienced back-to-back deer-hunting seasons like 2013-14 and 2014-15 since records have been kept by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]

Visitors to the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education in Corolla will be able to fish, crab, target shoot and kayak as part of "Outdoor Day" activities on April 8.

NCWRC schedules plenty of outdoor activities for Outer Banks center

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is holding a free “Outdoors Day” on April 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education in Corolla in Currituck County. […]

Backlashes

NCWRC’s deer-farm vote deserves praise

Craig Holt

North Carolina’s sportsmen, especially deer hunters, felt better about the state’s wildlife agency after Oct. 30. And for good reason. […]

The N.C. House version of the 2014 state budget includes a section that would transfer N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission management of captive deer and elk to the N.C. Department of Agriculture.

House bill would take management of captive deer away from NCWRC

Craig Holt

A section of the proposed 2014 House budget would transfer management authority over deer farming from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. […]

Locust Creek Access Area is just upstream from the delayed-harvest section of the Tuckasegee River.

Duke Energy, NCWRC adds to Tuckasegee River access

Robert Satterwhite

The Tuckasegee River in Jackson County is one of the most popular rivers in western North Carolina for fishing and boating, but access often can be a problem, especially during prime fishing and boating seasons. […]