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Today, Cape Lookout is an uninhabited landscape with empty beaches and undisturbed marshes. However, during the 19th- and 20th-centuries the area was heavily settled. Structures included a post office and schoolhouse.
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3677
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From 1869 to 1870, David Coues was Army surgeon at Fort Macon. He spent endless hours studying the wildlife and writing about it. His efforts put Bogue Banks on the naturalist's map. Coues later became the foremost ornithologist of his time.
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3.Salt Marsh Citizen: The Diamondback Terrapin by Spence, Lundie Coastwatch Vol. Issue , Spring 1998
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3678
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Being a gourmet delicacy brought the diamondback turtle to near extinction by the beginning of the 20th-century. The turtle still faces and uncertain future at the century's end through habitat loss and death in gill nets and crab pots.
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3679
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Passed by the 1997 General Assembly, HB 1059 amends the Coastal Area Management Act to allow certain kinds of development, like shops and restaurants, over public waters. The law has a three-year limit, and while developers see green and environmentalists red, no one is sure about the law's impact.
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3680
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The Coastal Waters Heritage Tourism Council seeks to attract many of the 20,000 boaters on the Intracoastal Waterway to stop along the way and visit historic and cultural sites, including Edenton and New Bern.
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