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-Press Release, NC Cooperative Extension 

North Carolina Cooperative Extension will host a series of free online seminars on the topic of wildlife management. This will be a six-week series scheduled at 1 p.m. each Friday from September 4 through October 9, 2020.

Wildlife on your land can offer various benefits, but also has the potential to create significant problems. Maximizing benefits while minimizing problems is simply a matter of implementing the right management practices. In this free online seminar series, representatives from various agencies will review the practices that help landowners meet their goals.

Topics and presenters include:

• Sept. 4 – Fallow Vegetation and Native Plantings: Managing Habitat for Wildlife and Pollinators ~ Presenter is John Isenhour, NC Wildlife Resources Commission
• Sept. 11 – Invasive Plant Control and Forest Management to Benefit Wildlife ~ Presenter is John Isenhour, NC Wildlife Resources Commission
• Sept. 18 – Hunting Leases and Trespass Laws ~ Presenter is Andrew Brannan, NC State Extension
• Sept. 25 – Coyote and Vulture Depredation Issues ~ Presenter is Jonathan Carreto, USDA/APHIS Wildlife Services
• Oct. 2 – Beaver Management and Control ~ Presenter is Jonathan Carreto, USDA/APHIS Wildlife Services
• Oct. 9 – Reducing Crop Damage From Deer ~ Presenters are Greg Batts and Jason Allen, NC Wildlife Resource Commission

To register for the series of seminars, visit http://go.ncsu.edu/wildlifemgmtseries and register via EventBrite. Links to the seminars will be emailed to registrants.

Complete details can be found at http://go.ncsu.edu/managewildlife. Details are also available by calling the NC Cooperative Extension County Center in your area:

Vance County – (252) 438-8188

Granville County – (919) 603-1350

Warren County – (252) 257-3640

Franklin County – (919) 496-3344

Person County – (336) 599-1195