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

• "The Risk of Being Burned” which summarizes research on the effects of prescribed fire on bobwhite quail nesting ecology.
• "Putting the Sting in Quail Management" which describes the similarities between habitat for declining bees and other pollinating insects and bobwhite quail.
• An article from Audubon North Carolina highlighting their efforts to conserve birds across the Tarheel State.
• A piece about the Wildlife Commission's Sandy Mush Game Land which contains some of the best early successional habitat in our Mountain Region.
• A story in our Conservation Chronicles Series focusing on efforts by our State’s citizens to manage their lands for wildlife.  This story delves into the Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association which works to bring landowners together to help each other conduct burning on their lands.
• Finally, our last two features focus on a year in the "working life" of one of our Technical Assistance Biologists, and we provide some tips explaining wildlife friendly disking techniques written by one of our Management Biologists.

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).