The Bodie Island Lighthouse is getting a much needed and long awaited facelift. The $2.8 million project to restore and refurbish the lighthouse got underway late last year and is expected to take about 18 months. When the restoration is finished, sometime in early 2011, the Park Service is planning to allow the public to […]
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A change in federal law effective today allows firearms in many national parks. People who can legally possess firearms under federal and state law can now possess those firearms in the national parks in that state. The new law was passed by Congress and signed last May by the President. It ends a Reagan-era law […]
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It may still feel cold here. High and low temperatures are still below average and have been since about Christmas. However, there are signs that spring is on the way. The daffodils are sprouting in island gardens. Mourning doves are courting. Businesses are starting to get ready for the upcoming season. And the National Park […]
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The National Park Service has provided the parties to the consent decree that settled a lawsuit against the Cape Hatteras National Seashore with its recommendations for 2010 pre-nesting closures to protect nesting shorebirds on the seashore beaches. Under the terms of the consent decree, the Park Service is required to provide these recommendations and maps […]
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By SUSAN WEST By SUSAN WEST Eric Schwaab, the new chief at National Marine Fisheries Service, is stepping into the job at a time when frustration with federal fisheries policy is bubbling over in coastal towns from Maine to Alaska. Schwaab was sworn in as the assistant administrator for fisheries in the National Oceanic and […]
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JACKSONVILLE– Dalton Davis Williams, 81, died Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, inJacksonville. Mr. Williams was born in Avon and was a memberofSaint John’s United Methodist Church. Hewas the son of the late Isaac Stanley and Louisa Price Williams. Survivingare his brother Oliver Linwood Williams of Lancaster, Calif., andseveral nieces and nephews. Mr. Williams was predeceased byhistwo […]
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BY SANDY SEMANS SENTINEL STAFF BY SANDY SEMANS SENTINEL STAFF Approximately five dozen scientists have signed on to a letter drafted by Audubon North Carolina which solicited signers to add their support in asking the National Park Service to adopt the “highest degree of protection” listed in the US Geological Survey’s management protocols that include […]
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Update on Swan Quarter and Cedar Island ferries The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Ferry Division announces that its maintenance staff has repaired the Motor Vessel Pamlico. The Ocracoke-Cedar Island schedule is: • Departing Ocracoke at 7:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. • Departing Cedar Island at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Ocracoke-Swan Quarter schedule […]
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Dare County’s Web site, www.preservebeachaccess.org has posted a special, five-part series of interviews with Dr. Mike Berry of Chapel Hill on such issues as the “fiasco” of the consent decree, the lack of science involved in off-road vehicle rulemaking, and why the so-called “best available science” cited by environmental groups and the Park Service just […]
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Has the Park Service dropped the ball again on ORV rulemaking? We are literally on the eve of having the Park Service unveil its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and preferred alternative for ORV regulation on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Seashore superintendent Mike Murray says he expects the Notice of Availability of the DEIS […]
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