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3345
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Pfiesteria, found in coastal waters, is toxic, elusive, and responsible for many fish kills. Parke Rublee, professor of biology an UNC-G, is developing a gene probe to locate the organism wherever it hides in the environment.
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3416
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Trinity Center on Bogue Banks occupies sound-to-sea property donated by Alice Hoffman. Owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, it is used for camps, conferences, and retreats by nonprofit groups.
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3417
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\"Behind the Veil,\" an oral history project of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, is a collection of interviews of over 1,200 African-Americans who lived during the Jim Crow era in the South.
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3418
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Riding the air currents harnessed to a hang glider is as close to having wings as humans can come. Author Daun Daemon experiences the thrill of hang gliding off Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks.
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3419
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With flounder harvests declining over 100 million pounds between 1984 and 1995, North Carolina Sea Grant scientists are developing a flounder aquaculture to supplement flounder caught in the wild.
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3507
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The Venus' Flytrap grows only within a 50-to-75-mile radius of Wilmington in the coastal bogs. Discovered in 1760 by Governor Arthur Dobbs, the rare plant is protected by law against unauthorized removal.
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3566
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Carved duck decoys on Harkers Island once helped residents attract a food source. Now decoy carvers, including Curt Salter and Carl Huff, have raised the traditional utilitarian decoy to an art form and cottage industry.
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3610
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The kitchen garden at Tryon Palace measured 16,200 square feet and was enclosed by an eight-foot-high wall. It provided the governor foods of American, European, and African origin, including squash and okra. Some, like salsify, are not common today.
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3674
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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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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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3726
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As new developments build up on Harkers Island, Karen Amspacher works to preserve the island's heritage. She serves as editor of the newsletter THE MAILBOAT, head of the Core Sound Decoy Museum, cookbook compiler, and fundraiser for the new decoy museum building.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 1998,
p26-28, il, por
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3728
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At the beginning of the 20th-century, the tiny town of Navassa in Brunswick County was the home of Wilmington's most important industry--guano fertilizer. The Navassa Guano Company was founded in 1869, and the town grew up around it.
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