By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN If you have noticed a lot of activity in recent days around the Frisco Pier, it’s because the owners, Tod and Angie Gaskill, are working on fixing up the pier house and are hoping that they can open part of the structure for business this year. This week, Angie […]
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Everyone has seen the ?for dummies? books. Various Web sites say the series began in 1991 with ?DOS for Dummies,? and, as of last year, there were about 1,700 ?dummies? titles. These days there is even ?dummies.com,? which features videos for dummies. I don?t know about you, but I bought several of those books years […]
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I have a pet peeve about the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Impact Statement on its off-road vehicle management plan. My peeve is that it is impossible to understand how pets on the seashore beaches will be regulated under the plan. Depending on where you look, you will find widely varying statements on regulations of […]
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In my March 26 blog, I wrote about the U.S. Geological Survey protocols for managing threatened and endangered species at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and whether these documents were peer reviewed according to the agency?s guidelines. The USGS and, I presume, The National Park Service still insist that the protocols, which recommend buffer zones […]
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This is a recent e-mail from an Island Free Press reader: What type of comments do you think would have the greatest impact? Maybe stories of what Hatteras Island and the beach mean to people, or more along the lines of numbers and stats? This question from Jessie McAninch has been typical of inquiries from […]
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Sometimes, if you don?t want to hear the answer, you should not ask the question Earlier, this week the National Park Service issued a media release that said the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) had published ?A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Information Related to the Biology and Management of Species of Special Concern at […]
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B y IRENE NOLAN It was a week of beginnings and endings for the Banker ponies of Hatteras and Ocracoke. The first milestone came on Monday, one of the first warm spring days of the year, when Ocracokers celebrated the birth of a new Banker pony in the island’s herd at the Pony Pen. The […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN The Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation’s 10th annual spring dance and fundraiser on Saturday night, March 20, at the Hatteras Civic Center was billed as a “toast to 10 years of sharing and caring.” The dress was “Black-tie, Hatteras-style” for this 10-year milestone. The foundation, which assists island cancer patients […]
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I?ve started to write this blog several times this week. I almost got to the end at one point. I was just waiting for some response from the Department of Interior or National Park Service in Washington, D.C. So now it?s Friday at 4 p.m. and there is no response ? or at least no […]
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If the Fish and Wildlife Service had a reputation of reasonableness in the implementation of the Endangered Species Act, my letter would feature an entirely different tone and text. Unfortunately, like this Revised Recovery Plan, your agency has a reputation of indifference to the human and economic impacts of your regulator programs. I want you […]
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