Windsurfing In 1967 Birth Of A New Surfing Sport
The windsurfer concept emerged in 1967 from Hoyle Schweitzer and James Drake of Southern California. It weighs 60 lbs fully rigged, measures 12 feet by 2.2 feet with a 14-foot mast and foot wishbone booms, and offers 56 square feet of sail area. Readers can contact Windsurfing International in Marina Del Rey for more details.
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Hoyle Schweitzer
James Drake
California
Windsurfing International, Inc
Princeton Dr
Marina del Rey
Calif
Delaware River
U.S. Coast Guard
United States
Mast Crop Helps Wildlife Weather Winter, Says Area Biologist
Harlan Hall, wildlife biologist, notes heavy mast crops and unharvested corn and bean fields bolster wildlife going into winter. He warns a heavy snows could still threaten small game, while quail and rabbit populations vary regionally. Hall adds that hunter selection over years has favored wary birds that fly far to escape.
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Harlan Hall
Sandhills
Yesteryear
Hall
Addressing the Slob Hunter Image in North Carolina
Scott Osborne, a game biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, argues that the public views hunters poorly due to a minority he calls slob hunters. He proposes ten steps for legitimate hunters to improve relations with landowners, ensure species protection, and curb illegal hunting practices.
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Jim Dean
Scott Osborne
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
Scott
Steel shot proposed to replace lead for Carolinas waterfowl
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service may ban lead shot in the 1977 78 duck and goose seasons across parts of North and South Carolina including Pamlico Sound Santee Cooper Reservoir Currituck and Dare Brunswick New Hanover Georgetown Colleton Charleston and Beaufort counties If approved steel shot would replace lead widely The agency invites public comment by January 31 and cites two million annual lead related waterfowl deaths as the motivation.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Carolinas
Fish and Wildlife Service
North
South Carolina
Pamlico Sound
Santee-Cooper Reservoir
Currituck Sound
Old West
Robert Smith
North Carolina
Currituck
Dare
Pamlico
Cape Fear River
Brunswick
New Hanover
Santee-Cooper Lakes
Georgetown
Colleton
Charleston
Beaufort
Washington, D.C
Smith
Ucks
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Phardson
Rabbit
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Julius Cooper
Atlantic
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High Point Enterprise
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