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Outdoors Notebook: Doves will be back in season Friday

JOURNAL STAFF AND WIRE REPORT

Published: December 11, 2008

■ The final open-season segment for mourning doves in North Carolina will start Friday and end Jan. 10. Shooting hours run from 30 minutes before sunrise until sunset.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission said that incorrect dates for the dove season were published in the December issue of Wildlife in North Carolina magazine, in the "In Season" calendar of the Back Porch section.

For more information, consult the online version of the 2008-2009 N.C. Inland Fishing, Hunting and Trapping Regulations Digest at www.ncwildlife.org or call 919-707-0031.

■ The Pisgah Fly Masters fly-fishing tournament on the Davidson River near Brevard will be back for a second year. The tournament is scheduled March 21-22 and there will be a youth category for anglers younger than 16.

The competition tests casting skills off-stream and catch-and-release abilities on-stream and has a cap of 125 entrants. The registration fee is $50 through March 3 and $75 thereafter, as long as spots remain.

All proceeds will go toward a new classroom at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education near Brevard that will be used for educational programs, including fly-fishing and fly-tying. Anyone interested in more information about the tournament can call the Pisgah Center at 828-877-4423 or send e-mail to emilie.johnson@ncwildlife.org.

■ The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is taking nominations for the fourth annual Thomas L. Quay Award and for its Nongame Wildlife Advisory Committee through Jan. 30.

The Quay Award -- named for Thomas Quay, a retired zoology professor at N.C. State -- recognizes individuals who make outstanding contributions to wildlife diversity in North Carolina and are considered leaders in wildlife-resources conservation. The Nongame Wildlife Advisory Committee will recommend one nominee to the Wildlife Commissioners in May, and the winner will be announced in July.

The Nongame Wildlife Advisory Committee, a group of 18, advises the commission on nongame and endangered wildlife issues statewide and meets four times a year. Six positions are open.

Nomination forms for the Quay Award and the committee are on the commission's Web site, www.ncwildlife.org, under the "Wildlife Species and Conservation" link. Electronic submissions are preferred and can be sent to carol.price@ncwildlife.org. Hard copies can me bailed to Carol Price, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, Division of Inland Fisheries, 1721 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1721.

Anyone needing more information should call Price at 919-707-0227.

■ The North Carolina Bowhunters Association (NCBA) is providing a deer-donation registry free of charge.

Here's how it works: Anyone who wants venison for personal consumption can be added to the registry by sending name, phone number and county of residence to: NCBA1975@triad.rr.com. That information also can be mailed to: NCBA Deer Donation Registry, 7796 N.C. 68 North, Stokesdale, N.C. 27357.

The NCBA will publish a roster of names and telephone numbers of individuals who want venison, sorted by county, at www.ncbowhunter.com. Hunters can access the information, call a person on the registry and make arrangements to deliver the deer at a later date.

The hunter is responsible for field-dressing the animal and delivering it to the recipient at a predetermined time and location. The recipient is responsible for processing the meat, or for paying a meat-processing shop to do so.

More information is posted on the NCBA Web site, www.ncbowhunter.com.