Law enforcement officials from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were still following up today on the bizarre case of a man who shot a sea turtle with a spear-gun on Wednesday. Hatteras Island District Ranger Joe Darling said the incident happened about mid-afternoon in the ocean at the […]
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NPS updates list of ramps closed at night
Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s resource management staff has prepared a list of ramps open for night driving to keep beachgoers up-to-date on the status of ORV routes. The seashore opened beaches without turtle nests approaching a hatch window to night-driving on Sept. 16, but buffers continue to keep night drivers at least a half-mile from […]
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Updates: Little libraries, turtle nests, an IFP milestone
I am squeezing three topics into this week’s blog. Two have been on my mind for a couple of weeks and are updates — on the Little Free Library and on The Island Free Press website. The third is an update on turtle nesting and buffer changes that deserve a few more words. LITTLE FREE […]
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Public comment open, meeting planned on Buxton beach restoration
The National Park Service announced today that the United States Army Corps of Engineers has released for public review an environmental assessment (EA) for the purpose of beach nourishment activities in the north Buxton area of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Dare County has requested a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit from the U.S. Army […]
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NPS seeking turtle injured by man with spear-gun
The National Park Service says that visitors reported an incident on Wednesday of a male with a spear-gun attempting to take a live sea turtle in the ocean waters under the old Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier in Frisco. According to a posting by NPS officials on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Facebook Page, the sea […]
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Ferry Division officials discuss more details on proposed passenger ferries
North Carolina Ferry Division officials at the monthly meeting on Ocracoke Monday talked more about the potential for passenger ferry service to the island from Hatteras. Jed Dixon, deputy ferry division director, who stressed that nothing has been decided, said that the feasibility study being done by Volkert, Inc., is expected to be done in […]
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UPDATE: NPS clarifies night-driving near turtle nests
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s annual announcement that ORV routes are now open at night on beaches without turtle nests has raised more than the usual number of questions from beach drivers. The Park Service modified its wildlife protection buffers earlier this summer, and, as a result, driving is now allowed during the day in […]
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State agency sets meeting on ‘severe’ gypsy moth infestation in Buxton Woods
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Plant Industry Division has scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. in the Fessenden Center on Highway 12 in Buxton. At the meeting, division officials will present a plan to eradicate a severe, isolated infestation of the invasive gypsy moth in the […]
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Legislative Update: Lawmakers rush to approve 400-page budget
The ink on the 2015-16 North Carolina State Budget wasn’t quite dry yesterday when the North Carolina Senate voted 33-16 along party lines to approve it — just six hours after the printed copies were provided to the legislators. Democrats refused to rubber-stamp the budget because of lack of time to review the more than […]
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Fish respond to warming ocean
Something’s happening out there in the waters of our coast. Chuck Bangley knows it. Bangley was a doctoral student at East Carolina University in 2011 when he started recording shark activity in North Carolina sounds. In the previous four decades, nine juvenile bull shark pups were documented in Pamlico Sound. During the next three years, […]
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