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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is co-sponsoring dozens of free kids' fishing events in association with National Fishing and Boating Week 2012.

Free kids fishing events on tap for this weekend

Now is a great time to take a kid fishing, as more than 35 free, family-oriented fishing events are scheduled across the state in celebration of National Fishing and Boating Week 2012.
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Blake Cox’s cinnamon wild turkey gobbler he shot April 20 in Guilford County is a 1-in-300,000 coloration pattern, experts said.

Cinnamon-colored gobbler spices up season for Kernersville hunter

Craig Holt

Odd coloration in Eastern wild turkeys is fairly common across the southeastern states, but Blake Cox of Kernersville bagged a gobbler that may take the 2012 prize in North Carolina. […]

South Carolina hunters could soon have expanded opportunities to take coyotes, as well as wild hogs and armadillos, as a bill works its way through the legislature.

Bill to expand coyote, wild hog and armadillo hunting opportunities takes another step forward

Pat Robertson

South Carolinians should soon get more ammunition to conduct the war on wild hogs, coyotes and armadillos. The Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee passed the House bill out with several proposed amendments last week and the full Senate is expected to take it up this week. […]

Eddie Bridges, director of the N.C. Wildlife Habitat Foundation, is one of six finalists for a national outdoor magazine’s “Heroes of Conservation” award.

Greensboro man is candidate for national conservation award

Craig Holt

Eddie Bridges of Greensboro is in the running for a national outdoor magazine’s top conservation award, having been named one of six finalists in Field & Stream’s 2012 “Heroes of Conservation” competition. […]

Lancaster County's Blake Hodge won his third state youth duck-calling championship.

Lancaster County youth is state duck-calling champion again

Pat Robertson

Blake Hodge lives and breathes duck hunting. When he’s not duck hunting, he’s practicing duck calling, and it pays off. […]

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has voted to end the practice of purse-seining for menhaden in North Carolina waters, seven years after the last North Carolina-based menhaden reduction operation closed its doors.

Marine Fisheries Commission ends purse-seining of menhaden

Jerry Dilsaver

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission voted at its May 11 meeting in Atlantic Beach to end the controversial practice of purse-seining for menhaden in North Carolina waters. Menhaden may still be harvested by other means. […]

Johnny Evans, CEO of a family-owned construction business in Orangeburg, has been named chairman of the DNR Board.

Haley appoints Evans as chairman of DNR Board

Pat Robertson

John P. “Johnny” Evans, a calming influence in the brouhaha that erupted last year over the way the retirement of S.C. Department of Natural Resources director John Frampton was handled, has been tapped by Gov. Nikki Haley to chair the Natural Resources Board. […]

Dates for North Carolina’s spring turkey season are set to ensure that the first peak of the breeding (and gobbling) is finished before hunters are in the woods.

The Lull Ain’t Dull

Craig Holt

Being enraptured by the pursuit of wild turkeys is akin to enslavement by alcohol, cocaine, tobacco, gambling, golf or strange women. […]

Gov Nikki Haley has a bill to extend the S.C. Conservation Bank for five years on her desk, awaiting her signature.

Bill to extend SC Conservation Bank rests on Haley’s desk

Pat Robertson

A bill to reauthorize the S.C. Conservation Bank – which has protected almost 160,000 acres of wildlife habitat and historic places – for another five years, has passed its final Senate hurdle and has been sent to Gov. Nikki Haley for her signature. […]

CCA-NC has asked for and received the resignation of a lobbyist who had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member of Rep. Thom Tillis (above), speaker of the North Carolina House of Representative.

CCA-NC cuts ties with lobbyist

Craig Holt

The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina has ended its relationship with lobbyist Dean Plunkett, who admitting May 2 to having an improper relationship with a staff member of Rep. Thom Tillis (R-Charlotte), the N.C. General Assembly’s Speaker of the House. […]