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Input needed to steer Dare salt marsh conservation effort
Example of salt marsh. File photo Dare County residents who own land with salt marsh are being asked to answer a five-minute survey to help the South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative develop programs...
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Why do sharks matter? Author Dr. David Shiffman explains
Dr. David Shiffman, facing front, has been on a 40-city international tour to promote his book, “Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator.” Photo: Contributed Dr....
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Brunswick County to host drop-in planning meeting Oct. 25
Officials are asking residents to share their vision for Brunswick County’s future 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25 during a Blueprint Brunswick 2040 community drop-in meeting at the Brunswick Center, 101 Stone...
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Nonprofit abandons Eagle Island purchase agreement
Eagles Island is across from historic downtown Wilmington. Photo: Unique Places to Save The nonprofit Unique Places to Save is terminating the purchase agreement with a Mooresville real estate...
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Emerald Isle board hears plan for 30-acre, forested park
McLean-Spell Park is on the sound side of N.C. 58 in Emerald Isle. Photo: Emerald Isle EMERALD ISLE – Town commissioners plan to hear from the public again before deciding on the next step for...
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$17M to go to state park improvements, land acquisition
Sunset at Pettigrew State Park. Photo: Phelps, N.C. State Parks Pettigrew State Park in Washington and Tyrrell counties, about 75 miles northeast of Greenville, is to receive nearly $2 million for...
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Land Trust secures 32 acres of Pender’s wet marl forest
Rocky Point Marl Forest in Pender County. Photo: Coastal Land Trust The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust has purchased 32.16 acres in Pender County, within the larger Rocky Point Marl Forest...
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Sea Gate Woods Preserve expands by 78 acres
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust expands Sea Gate Woods Preserve by 78 acres through a donation. Photo: Coastal Land Trust The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust recently acquired 78 acres in Carteret...
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Family donates 56 acres in Bertie to Coastal Land Trust
The 55.75-acre farm in Bertie County was donated in December 2022 to the Coastal Land Trust. Photo: Coastal Land Trust Coastal Land Trust announced this week a donation of 55.75 acres in Bertie County...
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Surrendering to sweet black water: Exploring the Roanoke
A view of the Roanoke River in northeastern North Carolina. Photo: Molly Herring The following essay is published as a guest commentary. Two trees rise out of the Albemarle Sound, battered straight by...
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Coastal Land Trust saves 421 acres in Bertie County
Cypress stand along the Chowan River in Bertie County. Photo: Walker Golder The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust purchased 421.38 acres, made up primarily of mature cypress gum swamp, in Bertie...
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Coastal Land Trust acquires two Bertie County tracts
The floodplain forest tract fronts the Chowan River near Colerain. Photo: Coastal Land Trust The Coastal Land Trust announced Monday that the conservation organization has recently acquired two...
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Woman turning family land into refuge for wildlife, herself
Sheba Shiver tags saplings on her property in Pender County. Photo: Trista Talton ROCKY POINT – Perhaps no one can describe Sheba Shiver’s connection to her family’s land better than she can. “I...
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Weyerhaeuser sets aside 1,600-plus acres for conservation
Property along Salmon Creek in Bertie County is one of eight tracts Weyerhaeuser says it will set aside for conservation. Photo: NCDNCR More than 1,600 acres in the coastal plain will be added to the...
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Harrison Marks takes top post at Coastal Land Trust
Harrison Marks Harrison Marks has been selected to serve as executive director for the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. With offices in Wilmington, New Bern and Elizabeth City, Coastal Land Trust...
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Tryon Palace receives land for new community park
Tryon Palace in New Bern. Photo: Ben Lindemann The Tryon Palace Foundation has been given property at the corner of S. Front and Craven streets, locally referred to as the “Talbots lot,” to be a...
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Aquarium to host Carnival to Combat Climate Change
Aquarium teen volunteer Kaylee Whitley, left, and staff at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores plan at a past Carnival to Combat Climate Change. Photo: NC Aquariums The second Carnival to...
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UNCW to screen ‘Shew’s Natural Treasures’ April 30
Roger Shew, UNCW faculty member and local environmental advocate. Photo: UNCW Environmental advocate and educator Roger Shew takes viewers on an exploration of the natural wonders in the Wilmington...
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Topsail Beach holds hearing on inlet property rezoning
A dredge is shown at work in this aerial view of the south end of Topsail Beach, looking north from New Topsail Inlet. Photo: Topsail Beach TOPSAIL BEACH – The highly anticipated recommendation for a...
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Regional plan aims to protect salt marsh as sea levels rise
The plan aims to perpetuate the numerous benefits of salt marshes as the sea level rises and there are more intense storms caused by climate change. Photo: North Carolina Coastal Federation A new...
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Topsail Beach Planning Board votes no on rezoning request
A dredge is shown at work in this aerial view of the south end of Topsail Beach, looking north from New Topsail Inlet. Photo: Topsail Beach TOPSAIL BEACH – The Topsail Beach Planning Board on...
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Study: Inflation reduced land, water conservation funding
A great blue heron in the marsh in Cedar Point. Photo: North Carolina Division of Water Resources While funding has increased over the last few years for land and water conservation, those levels,...
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Coastal Federation gets $1.6M to restore Carteret wetlands
The North Carolina Coastal Federation recently received a grant to restore 1,100 acres of land along the Newport River, some of which is shown here, to wetlands. Photo: Scott Pohlman Reprinted from...
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NC Forest Service’s annual tree seedling sale begins
A longleaf pine. Photo: N.C. Forest Service From conifers to hardwoods, there are millions of seedlings for sale through the North Carolina Forest Service. The Forest Service’s nursery program, which...
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Green Swamp now turning green again after burn, wildfire
Deb Maurer with The Nature Conservancy, right, leads a media tour Thursday of the Green Swamp Preserve in an area where a controlled burn was safely accomplished in January. Photo: Mark Courtney North...
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Calls to act on Topsail plan yield frustration, hearing date
A dredge is shown at work in this aerial view of the south end of Topsail Beach, looking north from New Topsail Inlet. Photo: Topsail Beach TOPSAIL BEACH – With the one-year mark approaching since a...
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Topsail Beach board to discuss The Point rezoning request
The proposed site for prospective buyer Todd Olson’s development. Source: Town documents Topsail Beach commissioners are meeting Monday afternoon to talk details of a proposed gated family compound at...
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Topsail Beach board wants more study before rezoning
New Topsail Inlet at Topsail Beach is shown with overlays of vegetation lines mapped between 1971 and 2016. Image: N.C. Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel on Coastal Hazards and N.C....
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17 acres along Chowan River in Bertie County now protected
Point Comfort on the Chowan River in Bertie County is now protected through the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. Photo: Coastal Land Trust With the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust’s recent...
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Coastal stays have raised $12,000 via Coins for Conservation
A herd of wild horses call the Rachel Carson Reserve in Beaufort home. Photo: NC Coastal Reserve Since beginning the Coins for Conservation program at Inlet Inn in Beaufort a little over a year ago,...
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Coastal Land Trust purchases 113 acres near landing field
The Coastal Land Trust said it will retain the Trent River property and manage it as a preserve. Photo: Coastal Land Trust A deal to protect a Marine Corps landing field near Pollocksville from...
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Agreement opens up more nature opportunities for campers
Primitive camping area at Gales Creek Preserve in Newport. Photo: N.C. Coastal Land Trust CARTERET COUNTY — As new neighbors, the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust and Camp Albemarle on N.C. Highway...
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Land Trust adds 400 acres to Goose Creek Game Lands
The property has more than 4 miles of frontage along the Bay River, Smith and Newton Creeks. Photo: Coastal Land Trust The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust announced Thursday that it had recently...
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Interactive online tour shows Green Swamp’s need for fire
An area of the Green Swamp Preserve where a controlled burn was held in January. Photo: Mark Courtney Fire is good for forests. See for yourself. The Nature Conservancy invites you to explore the...
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Olsons scrap plans to buy, develop Topsail Beach property
A view of Topsail Beach from The Point, as included in a presentation to the town planning board on the Olson’s application for conditional rezoning, which was withdrawn Monday. TOPSAIL BEACH – After...
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Designer Lilias J. Morrison: Homes should ‘blend into land’
Lilias Morrison stands upon a pier at the Sanderling Racquet Club in Duck. Photo: Kip Tabb In the early 1970s, the Outer Banks were still rough enough around the edges that it was possible to confuse...
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Brice’s Creek Nature Preserve to become nature park
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust transferred its 172-acre Brice’s Creek Nature Preserve in New Bern to Craven County. Photo: NC Coastal Land Trust The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust this week...
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A million new acres: Cooper sets lofty conservation goals
Gov. Roy Cooper, center, his wife Kristin, left, and state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Secretary Reid Wilson are shown with state park rangers on a dock at the Rolling View Falls Lake...
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Southport advances plan to sell habitat-rich acreage to state
The federal government has placed restrictive uses on the city-owned parcel, shown here in the purple-shaded area, because of its proximity to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point. Map: Brunswick...
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Land of the longleaf pine through a conservationist’s lens
Beginning in the 1970s, The Nature Conservancy began purchasing the pine savannas and pocosin lands that now make up the Green Swamp Preserve. The Preserve is located on Hwy. 211 a few miles west of...
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State’s climate plan adds carbon sequestration component
A wetlands-restoration project site in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge composed mainly of pocosin peat soils and draining to the northwest fork of the Alligator River. Photo: The Nature...
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Film on climate change adaption screening in April
PBS North Carolina is hosting a screening of “State of Change: Seeds of Hope” April 4 virtually and in Raleigh. Graphic: PBS NC PBS North Carolina is holding a special screening of a film featuring...
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Slick’s dilemma: How to save Pine Island as a bird refuge
Large houses dominate the landscape in this dense Pine Island development. Photo: Gilbert Gaul Second in a series In January 1972, Earl Slick purchased the Pine Island Hunt Club for $2.75 million. It...
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Lingerfelt to direct Coastal Land Trust’s land protection
Kenneth Lingerfelt is the Coastal Land Trust’s new director of land protection. Photo: Coastal Land Trust The Coastal Land Trust has selected Kenneth Lingerfelt as its new director of land protection....
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Southport board OKs land offer to NC Wildlife Commission
The federal government has placed restrictive uses on the city-owned parcel, shown here in the purple-shaded area, because of its proximity to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point. Map: Brunswick...
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New Bern to recognize Arbor Day with tree planting
Arbor Day graphic: city of New Bern New Bern is commemorating Arbor Day at 11 a.m. Friday with a ceremonial tree planting at Martin Marietta Park, at 700 S. Glenburnie Road. New Bern Parks and...
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Coastal Land Trust takes fresh approach to save ‘The Point’
A dredge is shown at work in this aerial view of “The Point” at the south end of Topsail Beach, looking north from New Topsail Inlet. Photo: Topsail Beach Tell the public about a contract to buy land?...
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Black River advocacy group set to hold inaugural meeting
Massive and ancient cypress trees and cypress knees rise above the dark water at the Black River Nature Preserve. Photo: ncwetlands With its rich, tea-colored waters and ancient bald cypress-peppered...
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Inclusive space: Group empowers women in conservation
Participants at Lake Mattamuskeet in February during a ForestHer NC waterfowl birding event. Photo: ForestHer NC A team of natural resource professionals and private landowners have been working over...
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Regulatory dispute over Jockey’s Ridge frustrates officials
Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Dare County features the tallest living sand dune system on the Atlantic coast. Photo: NCSPR Reprinted from Outer Banks Voice As the Coastal Resources Commission and North...
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