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16926
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This article discusses the probability of a snow-filled winter following a rainy hurricane season for eastern North Carolina.
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16915
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New property revaluations and use systems created a need for modern land records management systems in Beaufort County. The existing manual system was inadequate to meet the growing amount of questions, so the county turned to the implementation of geographic information systems as a decision support too.
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16827
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Communities large or small deal with environmental issues every day. They are an integral part of land use planning, and how well planners and community officials resolve or mitigate them determines how land will be used. Cooper describes an approach to planning that integrates environmental considerations into the land use decision-making process.
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16897
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Agriculture is the predominant economic activity in south-central North Carolina. Though abundant arable land is available for increased production, expansion and refinement is often hindered by frequent and sometimes severe droughts, associated with high temperatures and sandy soil. Ross argues for increased rates and levels of irrigation that would result in a more consistent and higher quality product.
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16945
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Nimmo discusses the history, production, manufacturing, and use of kenaf, a plant of the hibiscus family primarily grown for its fiber.
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16923
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North Carolina agriculture, once leading the nation in returns per planted acres, has been hard hit in recent years. But a small, determined group of Eastern North Carolina family farmers has refused to give up their farms. Growing the kenaf plant, eastern North Carolina farmers have found an environmentally-friendly, profitable, fixed-price alternative to commodity crops.
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16941
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With the movement away from tobacco in eastern North Carolina, McKinnie examines the alternatives, which include livestock.
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19350
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Local boundary changes can be realized in five different manners: annexation, incorporation, merger/consolidation, secessions, and special district formations. To understand the complexities of these changes and effects on taxes, government representation, and school districting the authors analyzed boundary shifts within Brunswick County from between 1990-2010. Brunswick County is the subject of this study because of its rapid population increase and frequency of local boundary changes during this period.
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16902
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As physicians orient toward a changing health care system, they increasingly establish secondary and tertiary practice locations. Sixteen percent of North Carolina's physicians had multiple locations during 1992. The expansion into multiple sites has clear implications for the geographic distribution of physicians and therefore the availability of and access to physicians.
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17015
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This article examines errors made in maps of the Carolinas as they concern Native Americans in the area.
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16998
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Digital elevation models have been developed as a tool for flood extent mapping of floodplains. These maps provide information on the extent of areas potentially devastated by floods, and can be used as a tool to assess social and economic impacts of such natural hazards.
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17004
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Monuments to North Carolina's Civil War dead became part of the state's human landscape soon after the war ended in 1865. The monuments vary in shape and size from the impressive statues in the grounds of the capitol in Raleigh to simple grave markers found in cemeteries across the state.
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16891
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In spite of progress controlling discharges of industrial pollutants, many urban drainage basins continue to suffer from heavy loads of sediment and pollutants. City governments and local environmental groups are attempting to restore natural vitality to such streams and wetlands through cooperative integrated efforts to reduce storm water borne pollution. This article discusses the parallel histories of stream greenway rehabilitation and storm water management and describes the ongoing process of merging the two goals in a southern Piedmont context--Greensboro's Lake Daniel Project.
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19352
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Dr. Mayfield has been a faculty member for the Department of Geography and Planning at Appalachian State for 24 years. He received the 2012 Educator of the Year Award for his tireless service during his tenure at Appalachian State having taught 21 different courses and surpervised field schools for 15 years.
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19395
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The author proposes a curriculum to teach eighth grade social studies students to the states Native American populations. To inform students about this topic, the lesson plans are structured around cultural geography lessons as an introduction to Native American history. There are three objectives for this course: identify Carolina Native American populations, describe Native American influence on colonial life, and analyze demographics and their impact on the state's society and economy.
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