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Wildlife In North Carolina Wins National Award

Wildlife in North Carolina magazine, the official publication of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, earned another honor this year, winning third place in the nation for wildlife magazines. The award came from the Association for Conservation Information, a nonproft peer group for natural resource, environmental and wildlife communicators. The magazine has fve times been named the nation’s best publication and has numerous second- and third-place recognitions. Wildlife in North Carolina began publishing in 1937 and has been published continuously since, with the exception of a few months during World War II.

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We touch hearts and minds to inspire North Carolina’s People.

We go into classrooms with pelts and skulls and microscopes, and we accompany young people into the fields and to the streams to see for themselves the wonder of wildlife and magnifcence of diversity. We create stewards by showing land-owners how our work and their support is critical to the survival of the ancient longleaf pine, and how forests and habitat on farmlands can help assure the survival of our diverse and plentiful songbirds. Stewardship helps assure sustainability for abundant and diverse wildlife resources and builds a caring, involved public sup-portive of North Carolina’s wildlife conser-vation efforts.