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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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7736
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The blue crab is North Carolina's most valuable commercial fishery. The state was the top blue crab producing one between 1994 and 1999. In 2002, the state still accounted for 21 percent of the country's total harvest. A Blue Crab Research Program by North Carolina Sea Grant specialist Sara Mirabilio provides insight into crab harvests, management, and research. Green explains the project and takes the reader on a crabbing trip in the Currituck Sound.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, southern flounder became a major fishery in the state. This occurred because restrictions on the summer flounder fishery increased the demand for other flounder. The southern flounder became so popular commercially that the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries now considers this flounder overfished. The division approved a statewide management plan in 2005 that imposes new guidelines to protect the fishery and help it recover. Seiling discusses three North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant research teams that are studying the southern flounder to assist in better management and to provide regional data about the fish.
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7738
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Beach vitex was introduced into the southeastern United States from Korea in the 1980s. Scientists believed the plant could help stabilize sand dunes. Beach vitex now grows as far north as Ocracoke Island and as far south as Florida and Alabama. Heavy concentrations are also found on Bogue Banks, Bald Head Island, and Oak Island. Experts in North Carolina are seeking to have the plant listed as a Federal Noxious Weed. North and South Carolina's two-state task force has worked to stop the plant's spread.
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7905
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Michael P. Voiland, assistant director for research and development at Cornell University, is the new director of North Carolina Sea Grant. He succeeds Roland G. Hodson, who is retiring June 30, 2006. Voiland has held a number of positions for the past thirty years in New York's Sea Grant and Land Grant programs, including Great Lakes program coordinator and associate director and extension program leader for New York Sea Grant.
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7906
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Along Morehead City's waterfront the number of commercial fishing boats has declined, charter boats are increasing in number, and new development projects are starting up. During the past twenty-five years the city obtained a Community Development Block Grant for waterfront improvement. That, plus private investment, has brought the town a new sea wall, underground utilities, brick paved sidewalks with planters along the waterfront, and new boat docks available for the public. Green takes the reader on a tour of Morehead City's new look.
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After a thirty-year lull, residents of eastern North Carolina received a grim reminder of the power of a hurricane when Fran, a category 3 storm, came ashore on September 5, 1996, at Topsail Island and drove as far inland as Raleigh. The storm was part of a one-two punch; Hurricane Bertha had struck the area two months before in July. Fran left $5 billion in damages. Green examines changes that have taken place over the last ten years, including building code updates for ocean properties, beach recovery, and new coastal insurance options.
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Shackleford Banks, part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, is a 3,000-acre uninhabited island near Atlantic Beach. A herd of 112 wild horses lives there, one of only a few wild herds remaining in the country. The herd's reproductive rate is carefully controlled to keep the horses from putting a strain on the island's food and water resources. To understand how the horses thrive and survive in the island's harsh environment, the National Park Service has undertaken a study of the horses' eating habits. The study will look at seasonal eating habits and whether different habitats provide different nutritional contents. No findings have been reported as yet, and the study will take another year to complete.
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7909
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Ronald Hodson came to North Carolina in 1973 to work as a research associate in the fledgling North Carolina Sea Grant program. He is retiring in 2006, after thirty-three years service. He has been the program's director since 1998. Moser looks at his career.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 2006,
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7910
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Development is moving inland from the coasts, and condominium complexes and housing communities are springing up along inland waterways. There is concern that this land-change will affect aquatic organisms downstream and in the estuaries. To address this concern, the North Carolina Blue Crab Research program is funding a research project at East Carolina University. The researchers are Greg Meyer, an ECU doctoral student; Joe Luzckovich, a fishery biologist; Mark Brinson, a wetland ecologist; and Terry West, an invertebrate zoologist. Seiling discusses the team's research and some early results.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 2006,
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Springer's Point is one of the largest undeveloped tracts remaining within the historic village of Ocracoke. This thirty-one-acre site was once poised for development, but it was saved by a ten-year preservation campaign led by the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust with support from several similar groups. The new preserve is a diverse coastal community of plants, wildlife, and things that go bump in the night. An interpretative trail leads visitors through the area.
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The Currituck Heritage Park, located in Corolla, provides visitors a unique look in the past, present, and future of the Currituck region, which was once known as Carotank. Seiling describes two familiar features of the thirty-nine-acre park, the Whalehead Club and the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, and introduces the newest addition, the Outerbanks Center for Wildlife Education.
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Changes are occurring on Hatteras Island. One tradition that is vanishing from the Hatteras waterfront, as fisherman switch to gill nets, is haul seining. Another change is the decline in boat slips for commercial fishermen. In the last twenty-five years over 100 boat slips have been lost to private developers, and commercial fishing captains are competing for the 50 slips remaining in Hatteras. Fish houses have declined from six to two recently. To help fishermen, the Dare County Commissioners are petitioning the General Assembly to give tax breaks to fishermen as they do to farmers. Green explores the history of the Hatteras community from 1846 to the present.
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In 2005, around twelve million people visited North Carolina's coastal region. Many coastal visitors come by car and have difficulty finding places to park. State and federal parks usually have large parking facilities, but some coastal communities struggle to accommodate visitors. Public access and parking issues among North Carolina's coastal communities are examined.
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Michael P. Voiland, assistant director for research and development at Cornell University, is the new director of North Carolina Sea Grant. He succeeds Roland G. Hodson, who is retiring June 30, 2006. Voiland has held a number of positions for the past thirty years in New York's Sea Grant and Land Grant programs, including Great Lakes program coordinator and associate director and extension program leader for New York Sea Grant.
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