U.S. Geological Survey personnel use an acoustic Doppler current profiler to make a stream flow measurement of flood waters from the Cape Fear River in Kelly Sept. 20 after Hurricane Florence. Photo: USGS WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — A workshop to learn about the latest science on climate change and its effects…
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A Baby Boom of Turtles?
…Saylor. Matthew Godfrey, a biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and director of the state’s Sea Turtle Project, reports the most common nesting species is the loggerhead, but green turtles, leatherbacks and a few Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle nests have been recorded on North Carolina’s beaches this year. “All…
Is Wetlands Restoration Worsening Flooding?
…this year from hurricanes Julia, Hermine and Matthew. Pocosin Lakes refuge encompasses parts of Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington counties, a total of 110,000 acres of some of the wildest land in North Carolina’s coastal plain. These are also among the state’s poorest and least populated counties, with wildlife far outnumbering…
NC Fisheries Woes Not Listed in NOAA Report
…Murphey said the crab stock will likely recover more quickly than the southern flounder stock, in part because much of last year’s harvest reduction was because of Hurricane Florence, which ravaged the North Carolina coast in September and halted a lot of harvesting. Landings in 2017 totaled about 18 million…
‘Forest bathing’ or hiking a trail can make you feel better
…repaired. And they might not be replaced since the trail has been thrice flooded and damaged in hurricanes Matthew in 2016, Florence in 2018, and most recently Dorian. Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent Dave Hallac said that his staff is taking a longer, open-minded look at the trail. “It is,…