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16554
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Leutze discusses the issue of Offshore Energy as it applies to North Carolina.
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16562
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Dr. Stan Riggs and his colleagues at East Carolina University have just turned out a first-class study and prognosis on North Carolina's coast. In the most recent piece, NORTH CAROLINA'S COAST IN CRISIS: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE, Riggs has gone from observing to predicting--the seas are rising at an increasingly rapid rate and believes the Outer Banks will become a series of islands rather than a narrow barrier island.
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When the concept of East Coast port development came into fashion years ago, North Carolina started thinking about a new international port at Southport. But given problems with legislation and funding, planning for ports such as Southport, have been lack luster.
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Leutze reports on the inaugural East Coast Waterways and Beach Symposium held at Emerald Isle in July 2005. Discussions were held on the most important developments along the coast and included dredging, beach nourishment, infrastructure needs, and the federal government's attitude toward coastal services.
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Leutze examines the controversy surrounding the coastal hazard zone maps, which are intended to predict what areas around what inlets are likely to be at risk. Controversy arises, for example, when what was once safe, such as a home built back from the shore, now finds itself in an unsafe area.
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In part two of his series on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Leutze travels the northern section by car, making stops that include Elizabeth City, Coinjock, Engelhard, and Belhaven. He stresses the importance of the waterway for recreational and commercial use and points out the emergency created by a lack of federal funds to prevent the silting in of the inlets that give access to the sea.
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16668
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Leutze discusses the European Union debt crisis and the continuing controversy on terminal groins as a protector against coastal erosion.
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16685
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Leutze discusses the recent success of the UNC-Wilmington Men's Basketball team.
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16588
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Leutze discusses the turmoils that are faced by the North Carolina coast such as lack of funding for coastal programs such as beach nourishment.
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16754
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With the approaching hurricane season, the North Carolina coast must also deal with the lack of funding to provide for renourishment programs.
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7415
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Leutze discusses the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from colonial times to the present. Unnamed in earlier times, the waters were simply a pathway used by colonists, sailors, fishermen, and commercial interests. An influential 1808 report, “Public Roads and Canals,†by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, called for a series of internal improvements to link states in the young nation together. In 1859, the first barge passed along the waterway. In 1913, Congress purchased land and began planning for a waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort, North Carolina. By 1936, the route was complete to the South Carolina line. Leutze concludes by describing towns and scenery along the route today.
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16579
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Although everyone knows that North Carolina has a long sea coast, most people are unaware that the State has a navy. Sometimes referred to as the North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division, the navy has 24 ships, a shipyard, a dredge, tugs, barges, military-type landing craft and various support vessels.
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16540
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The Clean Water Management Trust, a fund to protect land around vulnerable streams, wetlands, lakes, and watersheds, has been cut by eighty percent for North Carolina. Trust funds used for conservation purposes, including the National Heritage Trust Fund and Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, have recently been hacked for land acquisition and other economic ventures.
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Luetze discusses the decline in fish stocks worldwide. Almost a third of the fish stocks, as revealed in a four-year study of catch records, were 90 percent below the maximum historical catch level. Predictions are that by the mid-2000s the stocks will be practically nonexistent, affecting two hundred million people who fish for a living and one billion people who depend on fish as their primary food. He discusses the importance of renewing the Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976, which established fishery councils to manage resources and fishing activities in the federal two-hundred-mile limit off the national coastline. Only in North Carolina's Southeastern Atlantic region has there been any progress is protecting and rebuilding fish stocks.
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16533
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Although technically called the North Carolina Maritime Strategy study, the $2million study is intended to revive consideration of a mega port in Southport.
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