Walter Lane Barksdale

Service System, 147; Box: 18. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. 2. North Carolina Deaths, 1997-2004. North…

Stanley Adair Cain

…Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. In 1972 he moved to Santa Cruz, California and served as an Adjunct Professor at University…

Joseph Austin Holmes

…William Willard Ashe, who became particularly well known as a forester in the North Carolina Geological Survey and later in the U.S. Forest Service, and John Simcox Holmes (not directly…

Bruce Alexander Sorrie

…Sorrie’s “A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia” B.S. in Vertebrate Zoology from Cornell University in 1967. “After military service as a photographer…

Restoring the Rare Sensitive Jointvetch

Sensitive jointvetch in bloom. Image courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Our conservation department is growing sensitive jointvetch (Aeschynomene virginica) for restoration at Lake Mattamuskeet, in cooperation with…

Nandina Fruits Can Be Toxic to Birds

…Zona. Fast forward ten years, Carol Ann McCormick, the Herbarium’s curator, found several dead cedar waxwings on the UNC Chapel Hill campus within sight of a large planting of nandina….