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3729
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For thousands of years many plants in the Coastal Plain prospered through lightning-caused fires, which burned away surface materials and promoted new growth. As people now occupy these areas, lightning fires are controlled and plant survival is threatened.
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3730
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An oceanfront home is the desire of many people. However, buyers should weigh the risks of building on sand. Erosion is a constant problem. Hurricanes bring flooding and storm damage. Insurance costs are high, and building codes are strict.
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3735
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In 1916, Mattamuskeet Lodge opened as a pumping station to drain Lake Mattamuskeet. The project failed by 1932. From 1937 to 1974, it was a waterfowl hunting lodge, then shut down until the mid-1990s. Now it is coming to life again as an environmental center.
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3810
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A powerful storm in 1846 carved Oregon Inlet through the Outer Banks. Now 2,500 feet wide, it is a place of turbulent waters and shifting sands. It is a mixed blessing, taking lives, yet providing ocean access for fishermen. A controversial plan to control the shifting inlet is construction of two 3,500-foot jetties.
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3811
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While pfiesteria looms large in the headlines, it is only one of a number of thousands-of-years-old, harmful algal blooms that can flourish under the right conditions. Others include red tides and brown tides. The algae can cause illness and death in humans and affect coastal businesses.
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3812
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Scientific teams, assembled by the N.C. Sea Grant College Program from four state universities, including East Carolina University and N.C. State, studied the effects of pfiesteria. Among the areas researched by the ECU scientists were the health of crabbers compared to that of nonfishers and whether crabbers set out pots.
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3813
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An unlikely pairing on Hatteras Island in 1923 of an illiterate, self-taught midwife, Bathsheba Foster (\"Mis' Bashi\") and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate Blanche Nettleton Epler provides a picture of maternity care and the dangers women faced in childbirth a hundred years ago.
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3814
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Seabirds have bills designed for their own style of eating. Some are pointed, like that of the sanderling, which allows it to poke into the sand. The brown pelican has a long, bulky beak that allows it to seine 2.5 gallons of water for fish. Still other birds have beaks that are flat, stumpy, or slender.
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3824
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Ron Dotson, a fisheries biologist, is the new director of the North Carolina Sea Grant College Program, effective July 1, 1998. He has been interim director since January, 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A & M and has authored or co-authored over thirty scientific publications.
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3825
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A section of Wrightsville Beach that had been ravaged by Hurricane Fran is 1996 is being restored through a unique approach. The town allowed a Florida grower to harvest sea oat seeds in return for grown plants. Now over 25,000 sea oat plants are helping to stabilize and trap sand on the new dunes.
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3881
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Every fall for decades, fishermen have made the trek to the tip of Cape Hatteras. There, where the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current surge by, is some of the best autumn fishing to be found.
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3882
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Twelve years ago, using N.C. Sea Grant research, Lee Brothers of Aurora became the first person in the nation to pond-raise hybrid sea bass commercially. The fish, a cross between a striped bass and a white fish, generates around $3.5 million annually in the state. Brothers now markets about a million pounds of fish yearly.
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3883
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Paleoecologist Sherri Cooper of Duke University is studying core samples from the Neuse and Pamlico estuaries to build a history of the water quality over the centuries. Such studies may reveal some answers about how water quality declined and how possibly it might be regained.
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3900
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Striped bass fishing is at its best off the Outer Banks from September to March. However, it was not always so. In the 1970s, the species was in decline. Congressional passage of the Emergency Striped Bass Management Act began the recovery, which now allows fishermen once again to enjoy fishing for striped bass.
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3901
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Construction has a great deal to do in determining whether or not a house survives a hurricane or coastal storm. Building techniques include deep piling foundations on ocean-front homes and commercial shutter systems.
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