2024 Wildlife Diversity Program Annual Report
NCPARC ........................................................................................................................................43 MAMMALS .....................................................................................................................................48 Tricolored Bats Continue to Be Found in Winter on Coastal Plain Bridges ........................................48 Bat-friendly Cave Gate Installed at Boone’s Cave .............................................................................. 50 Capture of Northern Long-eared Bat at Historic Net Site ................................................................51 Assessing Impacts to Gray Bat Roosts from Hurricane Helene .......................................................52 FISHES ..........................................................................................................................................53 Cape Fear Shiner Broodstock Collection ........................................................................................53 Robust Redhorse Sampling and Propagation .................................................................................54 Rare Coastal Fishes Surveys .........................................................................................................55 Broadtail Madtom Surveys ...........................................................................................................56 Sicklefin Redhorse Conservation .................................................................................................... 57 Rare Coastal Fishes Surveys .......................................................................................................... 58 Lake Waccamaw Fish and Mussel Monitoring Surveys ..................................................................... 59 Carolina Pygmy Sunfish Monitoring ................................................................................................ 60 Broadtail Madtom Collections ........................................................................................................ 61 Uwharrie Mussel and Host Fish Collections ..................................................................................... 62 Roanoke Logperch Stocking .......................................................................................................... 63 Hurricane Helene Updates ............................................................................................................ 64 Initial Assessments from Hurricane Helene Flood Damage in Portions of Western North Carolina .....65 MOLLUSKS ....................................................................................................................................66 Magnificent Ramshorn Snail Project .............................................................................................66 Biologists Work to Learn Impacts of Lyngbya on Native Mussels ......................................................67 Deep River Mussel Monitoring ......................................................................................................68 Haw River Land Acquisition Parcel Surveys ...................................................................................69 Pee Dee River Mussel Surveys .....................................................................................................70 HABITAT MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................71 Design Features of NCWRC’s Motus Stations in Western North Carolina ..........................................71 Road to Recovery .........................................................................................................................73 Training Opportunities to Enhance Bog Conservation .....................................................................74 Partners for Green Growth ............................................................................................................75 Training for Partner Agencies ........................................................................................................76 Hurricane Helene Recovery–Stream Impacts ................................................................................77
Cover photos from top left clockwise: The NCWRC reintroduces the Roanoke Logperch, an endangered species, to the upper Mayo River in Rockingham County, photo by Jonathon Gruenke; Wildlife Technician Kabryn Mattison holds an adult Tiger Salamander found during winter amphibian surveys, photo by Jeff Hall; A Black-throated Green Warbler in Dare County, photo by Gerry Lebing; A northern long-eared bat caught in a 2024 mist-net survey in Haywood County, photo by Katherine Etchison.
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