Coastal Review | News of the North Carolina Coast
A tiny Z-scale model train operated by Mike Basher of Basher and Sons Hobbies rounds the bend during an appearance earlier this month at the 30th annual John Costlow Train Show at the North Carolina Maritime Museum Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center in Beaufort.
Briggs to lead Wildlife Resources Commission in 2025
Dec 6, 2024 · The state agency “dedicated to the conservation and wise management of fish and wildlife, and the regulation of inland fishing, hunting, trapping and boating regulations” will be under new leadership effective Jan. 1, 2025.
Inundation-prone Sledge Forest site set for development
Dec 6, 2024 · The proposed Hilton Bluffs development site plan map golf course and single-family homes, shown as points P and N, respectively, and horse ranch with river overlook and cabins, marked J and K, respectively, are shown with a 100-year floodplain overlay provided by Dr. Roger Shew, who said the Wilmington area had seen at least six 100- to 500-vear floods since 1999.
Officials urge residents to prepare for colder temperatures
Dec 3, 2024 · With this week’s colder weather coinciding with Winter Awareness Week, Dec. 1-7, Gov. Roy Cooper is encouraging residents to plan and prepare ahead.
Surf City’s 50-year sand plan calls for 22 million cubic yards
Sep 30, 2024 · “That’s a lot of sand,” said Kent Tranter, project manager with the Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington district. Tranter kicked off a public meeting in the town Tuesday night in a presentation of the Corps’ draft general reevaluation report and environmental assessment released last month on the project. “I will caution you, this is the draft report.
Best way to bid farewell 2024? Count birds on Outer Banks
Dec 4, 2024 · I’m referring, of course, to the Christmas Bird Counts, the largest and longest-running community science projects in the world.Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. The first counts, 27 of them, began in 1900 and were organized by ornithologist, Frank Chapman, founder and publisher of “Bird-Lore,” which later became Audubon Magazine.
History’s not-so-humble hedgerow habitat was nearly lost
Dec 10, 2024 · The ones here are often sprayed or string-trimmed or bushhogged into oblivion in keeping with the idea of perfect golf course yards. After World War II, many of the hedgerows that divided smaller fields in Europe were bulldozed and combined into larger, more crop-productive acreage better suited to then-modern farming methods, and also to …
Warming oceans intensified hurricanes’ strength: Studies
Nov 22, 2024 · The difference is a “tiny bit lower” than Gilford’s findings, “but very much in the same ballpark,” said Dr. Friederike “Fredi” Otto, a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London and lead of World Weather Attribution, a team of researchers from several European-based institutions.. Otto said the companion study, “really shows that …
Wildlife officials push back on straw bales for sand fencing
Nov 20, 2024 · Dunn, who is with Wildlife Resources Commission’s Habitat Conservation Program, said that the agency understands the desire to try and maintain shorelines, but pointed out what she said are “significant differences” between traditional sand fencing and bales.
Waste discharge agreement moves toward becoming rule
Nov 19, 2024 · “The basic framework of that agreement was it established these end-of-pipe nitrogen and phosphorus caps for the association,” Huisman said. Adding that, “as long as the association remains under those group caps all the individual members are deemed compliant with their individual allocations.”