Visit the Wildlife Commission’s State Fair Exhibit

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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]RALEIGH, N.C. — Focusing on North Carolina’s migratory wildlife, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission today opened its state fair exhibit featuring a free air rifle range, a wildlife memorabilia store, a mobile aquarium, and a series of displays depicting various migratory wildlife and their habitats.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]Visitors to the Wildlife Commission’s main tent will move through a series of oversized photographs and habitat re-creations illustrating some of the migratory routes wildlife use when passing through North Carolina. The Commission constructed a handicapped-accessible boardwalk with informational signs mounted on the handrails to give visitors a chance to learn about some of these game and nongame species.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]Highlights include a beach scene with loggerhead turtle hatchlings scurrying over a sand dune and a re-creation of the Roanoke River near Weldon, N.C., at springtime when river herring, shad, sturgeon and striped bass make their annual migratory spawning runs.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]This year’s wildlife button — a free, traditional state fair keepsake — features a striped bass. Commission biologists, educators and administrative staff are on hand to answer questions, provide literature and staff the N.C. WILD Store where visitors can purchase posters, subscribe to [url "http://www.ncwildlife.com/pg09_NCWildStore/pg9a.htm"]Wildlife in North Carolina[/url][url "http://www.ncwildlife.com/pg09_NCWildStore/pg9a.htm"] magazine[/url] or buy the Wildlife Commission’s [url "http://www.ncwildlife.com/news_stories/pg00_NewsRelease/pg00_aug04_1.htm"]award-winning calendar[/url].[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]Wildlife officers from the Enforcement Division are staffing their free air rifle range where visitors not only get opportunities to interact with officers in person, but also learn more about firearms safety from trained professionals.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]General information can be obtained from the state fair Web site, [url "http://www.ncstatefair.org/"]http://www.ncstatefair.org/[/url].[/size][/font]
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