The Fall 2018 Issue of The Upland Gazette is now available along with all past issues at the links below.  Articles in the current issue include:

• A heart-warming article called Outdoor Dreaming for Children with Life-Threatening Illnesses which should make us all thankful for the opportunities we have to enjoy the great outdoors and make us willing to help others share our experiences.
• A Conservation Chronicles segment called The Lone Ranger, Box Turtles and Sericea Lespedeza which describes one man’s journey to create wildlife habitat reminiscent of his childhood fantasies.
• Neighbors Helping Neighbors which describes how landowners in some areas of North Carolina are working together to achieve better wildlife habitat through cooperative efforts to implement prescribed burning.
• A piece from two University professors about re-assessing how we develop and manage optimal early successional habitat across North Carolina.
• North Carolina’s Tiniest Decoys focuses on a part of our State’s history that has been forgotten by most people – the tradition of making shorebird decoys.  Once used for hunting, these are now collectors’ items of much renown.

       
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• Another story in our Conservation Chronicles Series focusing on how one Harnett County landowner made his land management dreams become reality.

Please look for future issues here on our website and consider subscribing to Wildlife in North Carolina Magazine which includes The Upland Gazette in its Spring and Fall Guides (http://www.ncwildlife.org/WINC).