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march / april 1999






welcome to News Bytes, an online newsletter featuring the books and authors of the University of North Carolina Press. March is Women's History Month. Learn more about our distinguished tradition of publishing books on women's studies and history, and look at some of our featured titles. Also, meet an important woman in North Carolina's history, Bayard Wootten, the first professional female photographer in North Carolina, in Jerry Cotten's Light and Air.

As signs of spring begin to appear, the travel bug bites, and millions of tourists make plans to head to the mountains each year. A new book by Journalism professor and author Steve Nash takes a timely look at the current ecological state of the Blue Ridge Mountains and offers some insight on how we can help preserve the future of these public lands. Many of the subjects he covers - explosive growth of suburban-style communities and the invasion of exotic pests and plants - have recently been in the news. Blue Ridge 2020: An Owner's Manual by Steve Nash will be in stores in March, in plenty of time for Earth Day (April 22). This month's newsbytes features this eye-opening new book and includes a profile of the author.

"There aren't many certainties in life," outdoorsman Jim Dean writes, "but I think I can come close with one prediction. . . . I've got a pretty good idea where I'll be the first Saturday of each April for the rest of my life. In case you haven't already figured it out, that's the traditional opening day of the trout season in North Carolina." This elegy to the trout season is from "Just Once a Year," the first of fifty essays in Jim Dean's Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite, a wonderfully readable collection of Dean's best writings on fishing and hunting. This issue of News Bytes features the full text of Dean's essay "Just Once a Year."

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We hope you enjoy this issue of News Bytes.



feature

March is Women's History Month

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"Just Once a Year"

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Blue Ridge 2020

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Steve Nash, author of Blue Ridge 2020

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Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten

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