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US Fish and Wildlife proposes listing Southern hognose snake
More than 12 years after the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the agency, its officials proposed on Thursday listing the southern hognose snake as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
State awards $2.25 million for 10 public water access projects
The Public Beach and Coastal Waterfront Access Grant Program grants go to help local governments in the 20 coastal counties acquire land for public access sites and add or improve amenities.
Coastal commission readopts rule protecting Jockey’s Ridge
The rule, which ensures sand in Jockey’s Ridge State Park is kept within the park’s boundaries, now returns to the state Rules Review Commission.
Administration targets national forestland ‘roadless rule’
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has moved to repeal a 2001 rule that bars road construction, logging and mining in national forests, including more than 170,000 acres in North Carolina alone now protected by the rule.
NC Fisheries Division sets commercial flounder season dates
The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries has announced opening dates for the upcoming commercial flounder season.
Conservation group’s US 64 study finds ‘remarkable carnage’
More than 5,000 vertebrates representing 144 species of wildlife were killed on U.S. Highway 64 just halfway through a two-year survey.
Meteorologists to offer two hurricane forums in September
National Weather Service forecasters are to give presentations on hurricane preparedness in Belhaven Sept. 9 and in Merrimon Sept. 13.
Global photosynthesis rates trend differently on land, at sea
A recently published study finds that plants on land are increasingly absorbing more carbon, while Earth’s oceans are taking in and storing less.
Night flyer out on a limb
A male luna moth, or Actias luna, finds a perch in the branches of a Japanese maple near Russell Creek in Beaufort. The easily identified species flies mostly at night and is found statewide this time of year in and near hardwood forests, wooded residential areas and, on North Carolina’s barrier islands, in maritime forests. Adult luna moths do not feed and live off food they consumed as caterpillars for the moths’ seven- to 10-day lifespan.
NC 12 reopens; Hatteras, Ocracoke Island evacuees return
Ferries and the highway that runs along the Outer Banks are beginning to return to normal in the aftermath of Hurricane Erin’s close pass.
Relish a good pickle? Ancient preservation methods still work
Fruit ciders, vinegars, relishes and pickled vegetables — these time-tested methods for preserving foods share similarities, but there are also delicious differences.
Flounder allocation increased for recreational fishers
The state Marine Fisheries Commission has adopted an amendment that equally splits the flounder allocation between commercial and recreational fisheries beginning this year.
Cape Lookout National Seashore begins reopening facilities
National Park Service officials announced Friday that Cape Lookout National Seashore facilities would be reopening this weekend from closures related to Hurricane Erin.
Flooding keeps NC 12 closed to traffic as Erin heads out to sea
State transportation crews were clearing N.C. Highway 12 and rebuilding dunes in the wake of Hurricane Erin’s pass offshore, as flooding conditions continued and the road remained closed Friday morning.
Our Coast: Sawmill workers of the Roanoke River, 1938-1939
The next installment in historian David Cecelski’s “Working Lives: Photographs from Eastern North Carolina, 1937 to 1947″ series takes the reader to a sawmill, a handle mill, and a veneer plant on the banks of the Roanoke River in 1938 and 1939.
