by Maria Dunlavey | Feb 11, 2020 | Fish & Wildlife
The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians is currently working with Responsive Management, a research firm specializing in attitudes toward natural resources and outdoor recreation, to conduct a study about wildlife management in the Cherokee, North Carolina region. As...
by Maria Dunlavey | Jul 29, 2019 | Fish & Wildlife
Check out this fact sheet for info about the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (currently before the US House of Representatives) and its potential benefits to Tribal-led conservation. It could redirect $97.5 million to Tribal-led conservation efforts and...
by Maria Dunlavey | Apr 25, 2019 | Fish & Wildlife
As temperatures warm and fishing and swimming season ramps up, the EBCI Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Management asks for everyone’s help reporting hellbenders. Eastern hellbenders (ᏧᏩ, tsu-wa) – a species of giant salamander also called “water dogs” – live...
by Maria Dunlavey | Mar 26, 2019 | Fish & Wildlife
Our Tribal hatchery stocks over 250,000 trout per year on the Qualla Boundary – but not all of them are captured by anglers. What happens to the trout that die in the streams? In May of 2017, EBCI’s Caleb Hickman decided to find out. The results of his study with...
