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for "Burgess, Carla B"
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21024
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Burgess describes the state's newest public arboretum, as yet unnamed, which is constructed on a five-acre portion of land within the NC Museum of Natural Science's Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh. Though many of the plantings are small in stature now, when they grow, they will showcase every single wetland tree species in the state.
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21025
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Burgess describes the110,000-acre Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and its wildlife, along with its 2,900-acre Pungo Lake, and the ongoing controversy created when the U.S. Navy wanted to build a 28,000-acre practice field right next door for jet pilots to practice landings and takeoffs.
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34366
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Chlorination of drinking water has been linked to disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that can be harmful to human health. Tackling this problem has created myriad dilemmas for regulatory agencies, utility operations and the public at large. This article discusses the issue in North Carolina, alternative treatment technologies and strategies taken by the City of Durham.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 357, May/June 2007,
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20977
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There are seventeen species of bats known to be in North Carolina. They are the main predators of night-flying insects, as well as agricultural pests like hickory shuckworms and corn earworms. Burgess explains how Lon Coulter of Crumpler in this state and Frank and Teresa Bibin of Georgia utilize bat houses to control pests. Bat colonies number about 1,000 in North Carolina and between 3,000 and 4,000 in Georgia.
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A new Emergency Operations Center for North Carolina and a state emergency response fund to be tapped during hurricanes and other natural disasters are urgent necessities identified by the Joint Study Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management Recovery. Eleven legislative proposals are being introduced during the General Assembly short session to fulfill these needs.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 355, May/June 2006,
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North Carolina experienced a string of debilitating natural disasters over a five-year period beginning with Hurricane Floyd in 1999, and the response to some of these crises is still ongoing in many places. Government leaders and industries are cooperating to try to fix the policy and planning failures that exacerbated damages. Revised, comprehensive floodplain mapping is one of the preventative actions that emerged as a direct result of Hurricane Floyd.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 355, May/June 2006,
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7036
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Bluebirds are year-round residents of North Carolina. In recent years the species has been in decline because of pesticide use, dwindling habitats, and competition from aggressive non-native species. Conservationists say the best hope for the bird's comeback is wide-spread placement of nest boxes. In 1973, Jack Finch founded Homes for Bluebirds, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the bluebird's habitat. The organization has built and sold tens of thousands of boxes in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. One worker, Desma Perry, has built 70,000 boxes in the past twenty-five years.
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North Carolina has a rich history in minerals and gems, with more than three hundred kinds of minerals and gemstones scattered through three geographic regions. It is the only state in the nation in which all four of the major gems--diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires--have been found. The first gold rush in the country began in Cabarrus County in 1799. The largest emerald ever discovered in North America was found in western North Carolina in 1984, and gold mined from the same region supplied the U.S. Mint in Charlotte from 1837 to 1861.
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8180
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Standards for treating drinking water and wastewater in the country are becoming stricter. At the same time the pipes and related conduits that bring drinking water to and take wastewater away from the home or business are wearing out. Some of these underground systems have been doing their jobs for over one hundred years. Burgess discusses the problems created in dealing with water infrastructure replacement when federal mandates, like the Clean Water Act, are either underfunded, unfunded, or cut by Congress.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 350, Jan/Feb 2005,
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The summer of 2005 will mark the tenth anniversary of massive algae blooms and fish kills on the lower Neuse River caused by excessive nitrogen and phosphate loading in the Neuse estuary. Bill Holman, executive director of the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund, feels this was one instance where policymakers and scientists were at odds. He cites two examples of proactive, progressive management of water quality in the state's rapidly growing and highly urbanized Piedmont region--the Mountain Island Lake initiative and the Catawba River Mountain Island Lake. The latter contains the largest drinking water supply in North Carolina.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 351, Mar/Apr 2005,
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8182
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Low-impact development, or LID, is a new stormwater management strategy. Instead of diverting runoff away from its origin, LID assimilates rainwater where it falls, through a system of small, discrete methods distributed throughout the landscape. It uses the hydrological functions that were there before the property was developed. Instead of using traditional methods of water conveyance, like roof downspouts, curbs and gutters, or drainage pipes, builders can use bioretention areas (rain gardens), grassy swales, vegetated buffer/filter strips and infiltration trenches.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 352, May/June 2005,
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Since 1988, owners of commercial and noncommercial underground storage tanks (USTs) have had assistance from state trust funds to clean up petroleum leaks. Because of a major backlog of claims and substantial financial deficits, the state is phasing out this assistance program. The North Carolina Department of Waste Management is developing new legislation on USTs. The three objectives of the legislation are: initiate regulatory reform; allocate more money to meet its existing obligations to pay for cleanup at sites already reported; and transition toward alternate means for commercial tank owners to demonstrate, as required by federal law, that they have the financial means through insurance or other sources, to clean up any releases.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 353, July/Aug 2005,
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With new technology becoming more easily accessible and cost-effective, the museum has begun incorporating different techniques to study animals in the wild. The Southern Hognose snake in Sandhills and the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in the Appalachian mountain range are two species that have been studied using technological advancements. These approaches have already led to new observations regarding these species.
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Two of the museum employees capture the natural world around them in different ways. One uses a digital camera, and the other one sketches and paints. By making their subject matter the natural life of North Carolina, they hope to inspire people of all kinds to go out into nature and try it for themselves.
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North Carolina State University Libraries is teaming up with paleobotanist Elisabeth Wheeler in order to catalog thousands of species of wood. The collection, “Inside Wood”, will be available on the free public database, and showcase thousands of samples from different trees around the world. Wheeler has also donated her personal collection of 25,000 samples to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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