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The Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center opened in Columbia in Tyrrell County in 1998 and is operated by the Partnership for the Sound. The focus of the center is the human interaction with the environment. A featured exhibit is Hunter Jim, an animated robot that talks to visitors about area wildlife. Other exhibits include forestry and artifacts from the ESTELLE RANDALL, a ship which burned and sank in 1910 while docked in Columbia.
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Green discusses the innovative zoning plan developed for the city of Wanchese, a tiny community on the southernmost end of Roanoke Island. The plan includes twelve zoning districts that feature traditional village businesses, horse farms, and waterfront fish houses. For example, the Wanchese Wharf Marine Commercial Zone allows for boatyards, offices, schools, taxidermy, and marine businesses, whereas the Baumtown Traditional Zone permits mobile and single-family homes, as well as farming, waterfowl, poultry, and greenhouses.
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Big Sweep in North Carolina is a volunteer effort started in 1987 to clean trash from beaches and waterways. The program is now in all 100 North Carolina counties. 18,000 volunteers retrieved over 720,000 pounds of trash in 2007. Now Big Sweep has produced a book to make middle school students aware of the need for a clean environment. The publication included eleven litter awareness lessons and was written by two North Carolina teachers.
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The Dismal Swamp Canal is the oldest continuously operating manmade canal in the country. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. The canal is also part of the National Underground Railroad Network, an escape route for slaves during pre-Civil War days. Green takes readers on a cruise from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to Deep Creek, Virginia, highlighting the canal's engineering and its role in history.
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5.Daniels Family Thrives on Fishing Tradition by Green, Ann Coastwatch Vol. Issue , High Season 2001
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The Daniels family of the Outer Banks has been involved in the seafood industry since 1936 when Malcolm Daniels inherited The Wanchese Fish Co. from his father-in-law. Today the company is a major East Coast seafood processor and packer. Green discusses the business and the family that runs it.
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The state parks of the Coastal Plain provide a variety of natural resources and treasures, including historic Fort Macon State Park; Jockey's Ridge State Park, featuring the East Coast's highest sand dune; and Carolina Beach State Park, which has an exhibit hall focusing on the park's plant and animal life. Other parks are Fort Fisher and Hammock's Beach.
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Ecotourism is increasing along North Carolina's coast, with high interest in birding and marine mammal observation. In 1999, the North Carolina Sea Grant staff conducted a survey to learn tourists' environmental interests and the impact of commercial dolphin-watch enterprises on the Outer Banks. Among the findings were that over 50 percent of tourists wanted to known more about the marine environment, but 80 percent knew little or nothing about the Marine Mammal Protection Act passed in 1972. The survey focused on tourists who came to the Outer Banks to see bottlenose dolphins.
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Green reports on a North Carolina Sea Grant study that seeks to determine how oyster larvae move about. The study focuses on the American oyster, which often faces constantly changing and harsh conditions in the state's sounds and rivers. Each oyster produces millions of eggs annually that move by currents and tides to the surrounding areas. Protecting this broodstock increases the availability of native oysters. Preliminary movement data indicate that estuarine currents usually follow the wind's direction, which is probably the same pattern for larvae. Knowing where the larvae will be in certain areas aids in the building of new oyster sanctuaries and in the deployment of materials to support those areas.
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An 18th-century shipwreck, discovered at the mouth of Pembroke Creek in Edenton, provides a teaching site for East Carolina University maritime archaeology students. The ocean-going vessel is approximately 85 feet long and 25 feet wide. Green describes the students' activities and artifacts discovered.
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Green describes FerryMon, or Ferry-based Monitoring of Surface Water Quality, a project that monitors water quality in the Pamlico Sound and its tributaries using the North Carolina Department of Transportation's ferry system.
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Perquimans County cabinetmaker Ben Hobbs creates fine reproductions of 18th century furniture the old-fashioned way. He also teaches classes to aspiring cabinetmakers using hand tools, traditional techniques, and designs from the 18th century. Green discusses some of the history of cabinetmaking in eastern North Carolina and takes readers on a visit to Hobbs's workshop.
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Green discusses the new federal permit that is required for private recreational fishing boats that target highly migratory species, or HMS. The regulations cover species including sharks, tunas, swordfishes, and billfishes. The permits are required for anglers doing catch-and-release fishing or landing the fish.
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North Carolina seafood travels all over the country and all over the world. On place in particular it is sold is at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. Truck driver Eric Voliva tells what it’s like to drive a Wanchese Fish Company truck.
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Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower stands about twenty miles off the coast in an area of treacherous water called Frying Pan Shoals. Light towers are like lighthouses in water. The towers replaced lightships; now the towers are being replaced by buoys that transmit weather data that can be read online. Green discusses the history of lightships and light towers and the soon-to-be dismantled Frying Pan tower.
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Alger G. Willis Fishing Camps, located on Core Banks, the southern part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, have attracted anglers for over fifty years. Green describes the camps' history and what changes the years have brought.
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