Statewide NC Archives - Page 374 of 633

Ben Dziwulski and Ethan Cox of N.C. State's Basspack won the BoatUS Collegiate Bass fishing Championship May 24-25 on Alabama's Lake Pickwick.

Basspack wins collegiate fishing crown

For the first time in its seven-year history, the 2012 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Champions trophy is making a repeat visit to a campus, thanks to N.C. State’s Ben Dziwulski and Ethan Cox. […]

The SCDNR is taking applications for 1,200 permits for the 2012 alligator season.

Alligator hunting applications available online

SCDNR News Release

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has begun accepting online applications for the 2012 Public Alligator Hunting season and the Wildlife Management Area Alligator Hunting Season. […]

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

NCWRC Release

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. […]