President Barack Obama?s nominee to become director of the National Park Service appeared before the U.S. Senate?s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources this morning for a confirmation hearing. Jonathan Jarvis, who is currently director of the park?s Pacific West Region, is a biologist with 33 years of service with the Park Service. He?s a […]
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Confirmation hearing will be July 28 for Obamaâs nominee for NPS director
The U.S. Senate?s Energy and Natural Resources Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing for several of President Barack Obama?s nominees for positions in the administration, including Jonathan Jarvis as director of the National Park Service. The hearing before the full committee is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 28, and will be […]
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10 years after the “Move of the Century”
Ten years ago this month, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse ended its historic journey. That journey took the lighthouse about a half mile to the southwest of its original location, where it stood guard over the treacherous Diamond Shoals for almost 130 years, to move it away from the encroaching Atlantic Ocean. The move was opposed […]
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Does the Weather Channel hype or help during storms?
When Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward Hatteras and Ocracoke during the first week of September last year, it was closely followed by Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel. Cantore showed up in Hatteras to broadcast on the island on Thursday morning, Sept. 4. That night he broadcast live from Hatteras village. By the next morning, […]
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The problem with our national parks is that they are no longer for the people
In an interesting blog posted on the New York Times Web site last week and republished as an op-ed piece in some newspapers, Timothy Egan, Seattle bureau chief for the newspaper, bemoans the state of the national park system. He cites the declining visits to the parks and that all visitors look the same ? […]
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Let the air out of your tires â PLEASE
It happened again. It was another summer holiday weekend, and once again there were problems with off-road vehicles stuck on the seashore?s ramps. Lots of them. John McCutcheon, Hatteras Island?s head district ranger for the park, said that there were 91 ?visitor assists? for the week that ended on the July 4 holiday. Almost all […]
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SELC’s latest spin on the fantastic consent decree
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 just released more of its fantasy thinking on the terrific success of the fantastic consent decree. This time the SELC spin comes […]
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What the SELC won’t show you ¦ WITH SLIDE SHOW
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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