Tag: North Carolina

When high levels of so-called “forever chemicals” appeared in drinking water coming from the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, researchers turned to alligators to see just how high the...

Not all land is equal when it comes to the best acquisitions to maintain and connect longleaf pine ecosystems in North Carolina. The specialized ecosystem in the Southeast has been...

Mountain waterways may become refuges for salamanders after wildfires burn through parts of the Appalachian Mountains. “These riparian habitats are providing really important shelter areas for some of these species,...

Red wolves haven’t roamed the marshes of southwestern Louisiana for 40 years, but their genetic “ghosts” remain there in the DNA of coyotes whose ancestors mated with them, researchers say....

As coyotes expand their range in the United States and gray foxes decline throughout the country, researchers wondered what spaces the two competitive species occupy. Over the past century, coyotes...

North Carolina natural resource agencies have confirmed wild bird mortalities due to highly pathogenic avian influenza. The mortalities include a snow goose, redhead duck, red-shouldered hawk and bald eagle in...

The Red Wolf Recovery Program has released two wolves into a conservation area in North Carolina. The pair are the first of 10 that officials plan to release on the...

Wildlife managers are struggling to manage the spread of armadillos into North Carolina. Nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) are historically found in Texas and some surroundings states, with a range reaching...

When North Carolina State University researchers set out to collar black bears in the city of Asheville, they noticed something unusual. Yearlings are often too small to support the weight...

An active minority of poachers could be driving red wolves back toward extirpation even though most North Carolinians support the conservation and reintroduction efforts of the experimental population. Surveys reveal...