The Southern Environmental Law Center, which represented Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society in their lawsuit again the National Park Service over ORV use on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, has sent out press releases and information about the dire state of shorebirds on seashore beaches. One of the claims is that the […]
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If you didn’t like my blog on access, you really won’t like this take on it
If you did not like what I wrote in my blog titled ?Don?t beat up on the county commissioners,? you really won?t like today?s editorial in The Virginian-Pilot. That editorial is entitled ?Washington leaps into Hatteras fight.? Never mind, that it?s not even news since Washington has been involved in the ?fight? since last […]
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Blogging about the blog
I have always believed that a newspaper should be a marketplace of ideas — a forum for the community to express its views and opinions. That has certainly happened on my last blog, titled ?Don?t beat up the county about beach access ? there are better ways to spend our time.? And that is good. To set the […]
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Don’t beat up the county about beach access – there are better ways to spend our time
A standing room only crowd of about 125 people showed up at the meeting of the Dare County Board of Commissioners on Monday evening, June 15. They came to speak at the meeting?s public comment period about the beach access issues on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Twenty-five folks stepped up to the microphone to […]
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Rainbows over Hatteras ¦ WITH A SLIDE SHOW
By late afternoon on Friday, June 12, it looked as if Hatteras Island would get a really big thunderstorm. The National Weather Service had posted a severe thunderstorm watch, and radar showed big blobs of red ? storms across the sound. The thunder echoed as the sky grew darker, and the system moved west toward […]
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Replacing the Bonner Bridge may be moving forward again — just maybe
Dare County?s Citizens? Action Committee to Replace the Bonner Bridge met for the first time in almost a year on Wednesday, June 10. And, for the first time in quite some months, the committee and county officials were energized and hopeful that the effort to build a replacement for the aging Herbert C. Bonner Bridge […]
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A conversation with the park superintendent
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Mike Murray is the most accessible park leader that I have covered in 18 years of reporting news on Hatteras and Ocracoke. You may agree with the actions he takes or the direction in which he takes the seashore ? or you may not. Some think Murray is held hostage […]
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More ramp closures put the big squeeze on Hatteras beaches
Fewer than 10 miles of beach on Hatteras Island are now open to off-road vehicles. That?s fewer than 10 miles on the island?s more than 50 miles of shoreline. And much of the beach that is closed to ORVs is also closed to pedestrians. These are resource closures ? areas that are closed to protect […]
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