Dec 1, 2000

NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: Coyote Influx Threatens Red Wolf Survival

Coyotes. In popular conscious­ness, they slink through sagebrush and sand under a desert sky, frighten ranchers' cattle and howl at the Arizona moon. In truth, coyotes are just as likely to prowl under a North Carolina sky — and biologists with the federal red wolf re­establishment program are the ones who are howling.

Dec 1, 2000

The Vanishing Oyster: Stocks Are Declining in North Carolina

While Culpepper is laboring in the river, many of his neighbors are steaming oysters on a gas grill for the Mill Creek Oyster Festival. For the past 26 years, the festival has celebrated the delectable oysters harvested on the Newport River. Each year, people flock to the festival to get bowls of steaming clam chowder and plates full of fried seafood and steamed oysters.