Beauty, Bucks Sought in Bird Trail: State Hopes Nature-Themed Tourism Will Spark Economy in Eastern N.C
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By Jerry Allegood, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--SWANSBORO -- With hundreds of colorful birds already visiting and calling Eastern North Carolina home, the state is encouraging bird lovers to bring their binoculars and billfolds to watch them.   The N.C.
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By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 9--A couple times a year, thanks to the state's wildlife officials, we outdoors enthusiasts are able to roll out of bed with the kind of high hopes and grand dreams that young children associate with Christmas morning.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.
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By Susan Williams, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 16--FAYETTEVILLE -- With the addition of nearly four acres, the Paint Creek Nature Trail got a big boost during Friday's Fayette County Commission meeting.
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By Kathryn Thier, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 4--Virginia developers are at work on an unusual new residential community at Lake Norman's headwaters in unincorporated west Iredell County, across the Catawba River from a planned development in the town of Catawba.
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By Diana Graettinger, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 11--GRAND LAKE STREAM -- The people who know birds -- and want to keep them growing and flying -- have chosen a 339,000-acre chunk of Down East Maine for a very special designation.
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By Edward Godfrey, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 24--After making its first buy with Legacy Permit money in eastern Oklahoma, the state Wildlife Department is now looking in northwest Oklahoma to buy and restore a historic wetlands area.
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By Taylor Bright, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 4--Let's begin this week with some brick and mortar news out of Lancaster County. A 22,000- square-foot customer service center for Kennametal is being built in Indian Land.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 24--CONYNGHAM TWP. -- It took only a glance for Barry Bloss to identify the large bird he saw soaring along the Susquehanna River late last year.
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By John McGonigle  Game commission wants to make sure birds won't be harmed by new energy-producing windmills on the Appalachian ridge.
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By Jack Betts, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--For all of North Carolina's pressing environmental problems, there are notable success stories about things that work.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  A Northern Neck property owner wants permission to build homes on 15-story-tall cliffs in an area known for attracting hundreds of bald eagles.  Terrell W.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Feb. 5--ASHEBORO -- The changing global environment and its impact on Americans is not that far off, according to North Carolina Zoo Director David Jones.
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By Jefferson George, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--Gaston County leaders have compiled an extensive list of goals they want state legislators to pursue in this year's General Assembly.   Each year that the N.C.
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By Christian Berg, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 13--Golden eagles have ridden the winds that whip across Pennsylvania's Appalachian ridgetops for centuries, soaring northward to breeding grounds each spring and southward to hunting grounds each fall.
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By Aaron Lee, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Sep. 3--Two public forums in Appomattox this week are asking county  residents if they'd like a few new hiking and biking trails blazed.