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3183
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Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge, lying at the eastern end of Carteret County, holds 10,000 acres of the largest unchanged salt marsh in the state.
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3564
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Bull Neck Swamp, a 5,000-acre swamp forest bordering the Albemarle Sound and Scuppernong River in Washington County, is unique in that it remains as it was when the first Europeans came. Purchase by the state in 1995 has preserved it.
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26395
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Bland Simpson is the author of a new book called Sound Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain. Sound Country is the North Carolina region encompassing the five major and ten minor sounds. Bland offers his observations of how ecosystems in the coastal region have changed.
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Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 45 Issue (44)4, Fall 1997, p8-9, il
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2169
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The town of Chapel Hill grew up around well-preserved woods, now called Battle's Park, mainly because Kemp Battle, president of the University of North Carolina, loved and walked the tract over 130 years ago. The area was preserved in Battle's honor.
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2748
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The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Tommy Thompson a 1995 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award for his music compositions and for preservation and performance of traditional songs.
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688
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The author discusses changes in the Great Dismal Swamp as well as the outlook for the area's future.
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694
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In 1907, John McNeill called the Lumbee (Lumber) River \"a tortuous, delicious flirt,\" a description that still fits today.
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25581
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For the first time since the 1830s, the leaders of the 55,000-member Cherokee Nation and the 9,000-member Eastern Band of Cherokees met in joint council at Red Clay, TN. The divided people gathered to petition Congress, get the business world to notice their resources of land and labor, make friends, and make peace with the past.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 7, April 13-26 1984, p1, 14-15, por Periodical Website