Three cheers for the 2012 Bushwhacker Club!Over 130 volunteers turned out this fall ontheir own and at three organized volunteer

days. Armed with hand saws, chain saws, nippers,clippers, tractors and gators, Bushwhacker Clubmembers cleared miles of Foundation trails. Weestimate the 2012 Bushwhacker Club put in 1,000hours of volunteer work this fall. Wow!

As Bushwhacker Club tradition dictates, on thethree organized meeting days, members weretreated to donuts and coffee and given officialBushwhacker Club hats before heading out intothe Foundation. After spending the morning

clipping and clearing, Club members met up toswap stories over a lunch of sandwiches, chips,fruit, and the now traditional Bushwhacker Clubdessert: Sweet Feed chocolate chip cookies.

Thank you to all the members of the 2012Bushwhacker Club. The monumental task ofclearing and removing vegetation and debris ontrails and around jumps would not be possiblewithout your help.

Thank you to those who of you who clear trails inyour own backyards and continually volunteeryour time and energy to clear trails on theFoundation. You know who you are and we salute

you too! For a list of our amazing 2012Bushwhacker Club members, please turn topage 5.

Foundation News

OCTOBER 2012

A PUBLICATION OF THEWALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION

The Walthour-Moss Foundation

Post Office Box 978

Southern Pines, NC 28388

From:

The Walthour-Moss FoundationBoard of Directors

Dan Butler

David Carter

Alan Dretel

Jim Granito

Stephen Later

Richard Moore

Mark Packard

Dominick Pagnotta

THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION IS A 501 (C) (3) NON PROFIT CORPORATION.

The Foundation News is available on-line by email.

To be added to the email list log on at director@walthour-moss.org.

President EmeritaVirginia Walthour Moss �

Chairman EmeritusRichard D. Webb�

Martin O’Rourke�

Thomas Ross�

Rick Smith

L.P. Tate

Edward Taws, Jr.

James Van Camp

Henry Wheeler �

� Deceased�

Dennis Paules

Cameron Sadler

Neil Schwartzberg

L. P. Tate, Jr.

Virginia Thomasson

Katie Walsh

Caroline Young

VOLUME EIGHT

THE MISSION OF THE WALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION - “TO PRESERVE OPEN LAND,

TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND TO OFFER A PLACE FOR EQUESTRIAN PURPOSES”

Executive Director

Landon Russell

THE 2012 BUSHWHACKER CLUB: POWER IN NUMBERS

2012 BUSHWHACKER CLUB MEMBERS WORKED OVER

1,000 HOURS IN THE FOUNDATION THIS FALL.

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A STUDY ONWILD TURKEY HENSERIC KILBURG

Prescribed burns conducted during late winterhave long been used to promote grasses, forbs,and low shrubs used by wild turkeys fornesting cover. Recently, spring and summerprescribed burns have become commonplacein longleaf pine management because they aremore efficient in controlling hardwood growthand because hotter summer burns carry intostream bottoms and wetlands, moist areasthat still depend on periodic fire.

While burning during the turkey nestingseason could destroy nests or cause poultmortality, maintenance of herbaceous coverand low shrubs through fire could offsetlosses.

Wild turkey hens were captured in the winterand early spring of 2011 and 2012 on FortBragg and fitted with radio-transmitting“backpacks.” Each unit emitted a uniquefrequency and allowed us to monitor

individual turkey movements and survival.We monitored hens at least three times perweek during that time to find and documentnests.

Despite thousands of acres burned on FortBragg during the nesting season, only one outof forty-two nests was destroyed by fire. Fouradditional nests in 2012 were found north andwest of Fort Bragg including two on TheWalthour-Moss Foundation. Both nestscontained eggs, though neither clutch hatched.

Most turkeys nested along stream edges in lowshrubs. Additionally, nests located in thesestream edges had a far greater probability ofsurviving. No nests placed in upland habitatssurvived. The major cause of nest failure waspredation; however, predatory species couldnot be identified.

We found that the positive effects of spring andsummer burns outweigh the disadvantages of afew nests destroyed by fire. Without springand summer burns, the low shrubs foundalong stream edges could become densetangles unusable for turkey nesting. With thatsource of cover unavailable, turkeys would beforced to nest in suboptimal cover, likelyresulting in lower nest survival and populationdecline.

Eric Kilburg is Masters Candidate in theDepartment of Forestry and EnvironmentalSciences at North Carolina State University.He is studying the effects of prescribed fire onwild turkey habitat use and nest successduring the nesting and brooding periods.

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WILD TURKEY IN A PASTURE ALONG LAKE BAY ROAD.TWO TURKEYS NESTED THIS SPRING IN THE FOUNDATION.

Photo by Caroline Young

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INVASIVE SPECIES UPDATEBUG COLLECTION

NATIVE BEE STUDY UPDATE

Students enrolled in an upper levelEntomology class at North Carolina StateUniversity recently collected and identifiedinsects in and around Hank’s Woods andMagnolia Hill in the Foundation.

The list of identified insects includes severaldifferent types of beetles, bees, flies, spiders,ants, and a grasshopper. The photos belowwere taken that day by Professor Matt Bertone.Please note that the crab spider pictured belowis clinging to a Sandhills Blazing Star.

WHITEBANDED CRAB SPIDER, THOMISIDAE(MISUMENOIDES FORMOSIPES)

HARVESTER ANT (POGONOMYRMEX BADIUS)

After completing a survey of invasive plantspecies in The Walthour-Moss Foundation inJune, Tracy Rush and her team from theSandhills Ecological Institute returned inSeptember to remove invasive speciescategorized as level 1 by the Sandhills WeedManagement Program. Invasive speciestreated on the Foundation included kudzunear Sweetheart lake, wisteria near FirestoneLake, Japanese Stiltgrass near Carroll’s Branchand Firelane 3, and Chinaberry located onseveral spots along the Foundations’ edge.

The work was provided at no cost to The Walthour-Moss Foundation throughmembership in the Safe Harbor Program.

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Over the past six months, Heather Campbell, agraduate student in the Department ofEntomology at North Carolina StateUniversity, regularly collected samples of ournative Sandhills bees from sixteen sites in TheWalthour-Moss Foundation. Now that coolerweather has arrived, she will spend the next sixmonths cataloguing and identifying the beescollected over the summer.

This process will be repeated next summerwhen Heather selects sixteen new sites in theFoundation for sample collection. She plans tohave her study completed by December 2013.

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Photo by Matt Bertone

Photo by Matt Bertone

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Photo by Katie Walsh

WHAT’S IN BLOOM?

FRAGRANT GOLDENROD(SOLIDAGO ODORA)

ONE OF OUR MOST COMMON GOLDENRODS, FOUND IN A

VARIETY OF HABITATS. STEMS ARE 0.5-1 M TALL, THE UPPER

PORTION UNBRANCHED. THERE ARE NO BASAL LEAVES.STEM LEAVES ARE LANCE-SHAPED, 3-10 CM LONG AND 5-25MM WIDE, WITH THE ODOR OF ANISE WHEN CRUSHED.FLOWERS GROW IN TERMINAL BRANCHED, PYRAMID-SHAPED

INFLORESCENCE. RAY FLOWERS ARE YELLOW 2-4 MM LONG.DISK FLOWERS ARE ALSO YELLOW.

SANDHILLS BLAZING STAR(LIATRIS COKERI)

SANDHILLS BLAZING STAR IS A PERENNIAL FROM A HARD,ROUNDISH ROOT STOCK. STEMS ARE ARCHING 0.8 M LONG,UNBRANCHED. LEAVES ARE NUMEROUS, LINEAR 5-18 CM

LONG AND LESS THAN 2-5 MM WIDE. FLOWER HEADS GROW

IN A DENSE SPIKE, OFTEN ONE-SIDED. THE BRACTS OF THE

HEADS FORM A CONE, 5-10 MM LONG, THEIR TIPS DENSE

WITH RESIN DOTS. EACH HEAD HAS 4-9 DISC FLOWERS, PINK

TO ROSY UP TO 7 MM LONG, WITH 5 SHORT SPREADING

PETALS. PLANTS ARE PLENTIFUL AROUND RECENTLY BURNED

LONG-LEAF PINE STANDS, LIKE HOMESITE HILL.

AUTUMN GENTIAN(GENTIANA AUTUMNALIS)

PERENNIAL 15-70 CM TALL. THE LEAVES ARE SPARSE,OPPOSITE, LINEAR, 5-7.5 CM LONG AND LESS THAN 2 MM

WIDE, CURVED TO THE GROUND SO THAT FROM ABOVE, THEY

RESEMBLE WHIRLING "HELICOPTER BLADES." THE SINGLE

FLOWER IS 5 CM LONG WITH 5 SPREADING LOBES, DEEP BLUE,WITH PALE GREEN DOTS. AUTUMN GENTIAN IS ONE OF THE

SHOWIEST FLOWERS OF THE FALL SEASON. PETALS OPEN ON

SUNNY DAYS BUT CLOSE WHEN THE SKY IS OVERCAST. IT IS

LOCALLY COMMON IN THE CAROLINAS AND NEW JERSEY, AND

RARE ELSEWHERE.

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Photo by Katie Walsh

Photo by Katie Walsh

A HUGE THANK YOU TOTHE 2012 BUSHWHACKER CLUB!

Tony Ioppolo and Lisa Kivett

Kendyl Janis

Denise Jones

Mike Keatley

Campbell Jourdian

Stephen Later

Gary Lergner

Susan and Chris Lindamood

Laura Lindamood

Ceci and Wade Liner

Kat and Crawford Liner

Marlow and Antonio Martinez

George Manley and Cheryl Vorster

Mike McArthur

Marg McDougall

Lucy Meldrum

Babs and Norm Minery

Mel Minery

Andrea and Dick Moore

Wayne Moore

Leslie Murphy

Landon and Daniel Nesser

Dana Norquist

John O’Connor

Cindy and Dominick Pagnotta

John Pavan

Dennis Paules

Jean Pedrick

Wendy Preble

Marcie Quist

Betsy Rainoff

Christine and David Raley

Sassy Riley

Irene and Mike Russell

Cameron and Lincoln Sadler

Kathryn Saunders

Neil Schwartzberg

Sverre Schiotz

Bobby Seals

Jenny Seals

Mari Secrist

Linda Selbach

Abby Shultis

Abby Simpson

Pat Smith

Shellie Sommerson

Linda and Larry Spence

Craig Stokes

Paul Striberry

Jan and Bill Taper

Angie Tally

Maggie Tally

Kathryn and Jock Tate

Anne and Rick Thompson

Ashley VanCamp

Camilla Vance

Carolyn and Byron Wade

Maddie Wade

Katie and Dick Walsh

Tim Williams

Mary Anne and Peter Winkelman

Maureen and Patrick Wurzel

Mel Wyatt

Caroline and Wade Young

Tom Young

Chuck and Beth Younger

Note: We have worked hard to include

all volunteers’ names. If we have

mistakenly omitted a name, please let us

know so that we may have an accurate

listing of the 2012 Bushwhacker Club.

Betsy Adams

Kate, Autumn and William Allen

Jim Baker

Ron Baldwin

Janie Boland

Joanie Bowden

Mike Brooder

Tempe Brown

Marcia and Don Bryant

Pat Cameron

Marianne and Jeff Chulay

Gaye Clark

Markie Clowes

Leila Cluff-Ryan

Kellie Cochran

Amilda Coffman

Aggie and David Cohen

Kellie Cochran

Terry and Charlie Cook

Debra D’Angelo

Becky Derose

Kelly Dobert

Linda Dreher

Effie Ellis

Susie Gaines

Shirley Gaither

Becky and Nelson Garnett

Fran Gertz

Bri Gindlesperger

Jim Granito

Leslie and Greg Griewe

Maureen and Paul Grippa

Marged Harris

Lori and Jim Heim

Blaine Holland

Wendi, Tinto and Zoe Howes

OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 7

THEWALTHOUR-MOSS FOUNDATION

Invites You to Attend

The First Annual Horse Country Social

Sunday, October 28, 2012, Noon to 3:00 PM

The Walthour-Moss FoundationHunter Trials Course at Quail GlenOld Mail Road, Southern Pines

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Catering by The White RabbitWith Music by The Java Mules

• Lunch tickets are $35 per adult and $15 per child under 12.• To order tickets by phone, please call Landon Russell at 910-695-7811.• For online ticket orders, please log on to our website: www.walthour-moss.org. • Please note that the $35 lunch ticket is not tax deductible. The full amount will be used for

goods and services.• Attendees will be given lunch ticket(s) on October 28 at the event registration table.

Tickets will not be mailed.• Tickets will be available for purchase until October 24.

Directions:From Youngs Road: Turn on to Old Mail Road. The Hunter Trials Course at Quail Glen is 1/3 ofmile down on your LEFT.

T i c k e t I n f o rma t i on

OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 6

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SAVE OUR FORESTGOLF TOURNAMENT

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012

PRESCRIBED BURN UPDATE

2012 FALL RIDES

Sunday, November 4

19th Annual Hunter Pace

to benefit the

Moore County Hounds

Hobby Field

Sunday, November 11

6th Annual Ride for the Horse

to benefit the

U.S. Equine Rescue League

Moor Meadow

Prescribed burning is a key part of theFoundation’s stewardship plan formaintaining the 4,000 acres of longleaf pineforest in our care. This year, 1,100 acres weresuccessfully burned and our 2013 plan calls forprescribed burns on approximately 1,000acres.

To alert our friends and neighbors about theprescribed burns, we will send out an emailnotice, update our Facebook page, and postprinted notices at key entrances to theFoundation on burn days.

If you would like to receive email noticesregarding prescribed burns and otherFoundation information, please email LandonRussell at director@walthour-moss.

PLAY A ROUND OF GOLFSPONSOR A PLAYER or SPONSOR A HOLE

SAVE OUR FOREST GOLF TOURNAMENTto benefit The Walthour-Moss Foundation’s

efforts to stop the bypass through Foundationland, will be held on Sunday, December 9,2012 at Mid Pines Country Club. Check-in

begins at 11:30 a.m., with a 12:30 p.m.shotgun start. The format is Texas Scramble.

The entry fee is $100 per player. If you donot play golf but want to participate,

SPONSOR A SOLDIER to play for $100 orSPONSOR A HOLE for $100.

Prizes will be awarded for Overall Winners,Closest to the Pin and Longest Drive.

Presentation of prizes will be held after theround in Mid Pines Country Club’s CosgroveLounge. Snacks will be provided and a cash

bar available.

To enter, sponsor a soldier, sponsor a hole orfor more information on the

SAVE OUR FOREST GOLF TOURNAMENTplease contact:

Rick or Ann Thompson 910-245-4813 or Dick Walsh 910-692-7719

Please support this event. Help prevent a fourlane limited access freeway roaring throughour community, destroying our longleaf pine

forest and our rural lifestyle.