Traditional Tar Heel hazards like poison ivy, ticks, chiggers, poisonous spiders and copperheads...
Category - Nature
Seen Any Hellbenders?
Biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are asking the public, in particular...
Scared Of Snakes? Wasps, Dogs Deadlier
Beware the snake, the spider and the scorpion, though you are much more likely to be killed by a...
Avoiding Coyote Problems
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission offers these tips: • Don’t approach a...
N.C. A Pitstop For Fall Pollinators
Cooler temperatures and changing leaves in North Carolina can make it easy to forget that...
Fox Sightings Not Unusual
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds residents that fox sightings during daylight hours...
See A Snake, Don’t Panic
As the weather warms, snakes start moving and calls start flooding the N.C. Wildlife Resources...
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, A Pre-European Landscape
Dry sandy ridges are long leaf pine savannas if burned frequently enough, ignited by lightning or...
Grass Carp Used to Control Hydrilla
The bald eagle that died and was recovered in 2015 had decomposed too much to determine its cause...
Endangered Species List Proposal
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is holding three public hearings in April to take comments...