North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

The Fall 2020 Issue of The Upland Gazette is now available along with all past issues at the links below. Articles in the current issue include:

• The Editor’s Note describing the role and importance of pollinators and how quality wildlife habitat often supports these critical species.
• An article about how Wildlife Commission Game Lands provide hunting opportunities to a wide variety of people in a rapidly growing state.
• A feature describing how a landowner might create a “Field of Dreams” for bobwhite quail if their land is in the right landscape and they have help from their neighbors.
• An update about a recently discovered “red meat allergy” that is thought to be caused by ticks.  This article gives some advice for how you can help prevent this disease from impacting you.
• An overview of how one family patriarch is working to ensure his land and wildlife management passions are passed on to future generations.
• A Land Managers’ Toolbox feature with helpful hints on how important “patience” is if you are going to be successful managing wildlife habitat in the Tarheel State.
• A flyer describing the Wildlife Commission’s Getting Started Outdoors (GSO) Hunting Workshops and how you can get involved.

and finally, 

• An update from Quail Forever, one of our conservation partners, describing their efforts to help implement the Woods for Wildlife Conservation Initiative on Private Lands in North Carolina.

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).