The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment on the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s request that the Corps authorize emergency beach nourishment at the S-curves in northern Rodanthe. The public comment period opened on July 1 and will close at 5 p.m. on July 30. DOT is seeking the Army Corps authorization […]
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Ramps 43 and 44 reopen; soundside Hatteras Inlet access closes
The National Park Service has reopened two popular off-road vehicle ramps in the Buxton area of Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Ramps 43 and 44 reopened to off-road vehicle (ORV) use this morning as the shorebird nesting season comes to a close in this section of the seashore. Randy Swilling, the seashore’s natural resources program manager, […]
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Here comes the judge – again
U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle has scheduled another status conference in the case of a lawsuit filed against the National Park Service by environmental groups in 2007 over the lack of an off-road vehicle plan at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The status conference will be on Wednesday, July 31, at 11 a.m. in […]
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Piping plover chicks at Ramp 43 about a week from fledging
The four piping plover chicks that hatched from a nest near Ramp 43 on June 13 are still in the area and foraging around a pond near the ramp and occasionally in surf on the ocean beach, according to Randy Swilling, natural resources program manager for the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The three-week-old chicks, Swilling […]
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Park Service reporting on beach access – what works for you?
Summer is here. You can tell by the return of visitors, traffic on Highway 12, the southwest wind with heat and humidity and the chance of thundershowers each day. It?s good to see the folks here again. Of course, this is also high season for visiting turtles and shorebirds that are busy nesting on our […]
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Virginia man drowns on seashore beach in Frisco
A 22-year-old man from Montpelier, Va., drowned and his 15-year-old brother almost drowned on Wednesday, June 26, in an incident on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beach in Frisco. According to Hatteras Island District Ranger David Carter, the call for help for swimmers in trouble about 200 yards north of the Frisco Pier came in […]
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Dare board sets hearing on occupancy tax increase for July 15
The Dare County Board of Commissioners has set a public hearing on a proposed one percent increase in the occupancy tax for Monday, July 15, at 5:30 during the regularly scheduled July board meeting. The tax increase would go to funding beach nourishment. Three towns that are interested in nourishment – Duck, Kitty Hawk, and […]
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Public comment period opens for additional beach access
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore has released its proposal to facilitate additional beach access to the public. A public comment period will open July 1 and run through Aug. 2. Public meetings will also be scheduled soon, probably for mid-July. The Proposal to Facilitate Additional Public Beach Access Project presents an evaluation of two alternatives […]
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MFC schedules, then cancels meeting to consider banning trawling in inside waters
Marine Fisheries Commission Chairman Rob Bizzell yesterday scheduled a meeting for Friday to consider a petition for rulemaking that effectively would prohibit trawling in North Carolina’s internal coastal waters. Then today, he cancelled the meeting. According to an MFC press release, Bizzell has decided, instead, to ask the Finfish, Shellfish/Crustacean, Habitat and Water Quality and […]
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Inconvenient Truths
The Southern Environmental Law Center, Audubon North Carolina, and Defenders of Wildlife need some new writers ? or at least some new ideas — for their press releases. They have been issuing the same release for at least five years now, even though it has been noted here and in other publications that their storyline […]
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