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Pamlico Sound oyster sanctuary network continues to grow – Pamlico Sound, NC
In Pamlico Sound early Tuesday afternoon, near Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge in Down East Carteret County, two excavators at each end of a barge strategically placed the day’s load of 700 tons of limestone marl and crushed concrete into the water.
Excavators deploy limestone marl and concrete into the Pamlico Sound Tuesday to build the Cedar Island Oyster Sanctuary. Photo: Jennifer Allen
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Ranger-guided Paddles Encourage Ecosystem Appreciation
Away from the bustling summer crowds, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s new “Kayak with a Ranger” program allows participants to get close to and appreciate nature during guided paddles of the salt marshes and waters of Pamlico Sound.
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Offshore wind turbine impacts a trade-off, panelists say
Construction of wind turbines off the North Carolina coast could affect birds and marine life, and while scientists and others seek more information on the extent of those effects, those who spoke during a forum last week in Wilmington said climate change is likely a greater threat.
Offshore wind turbine impacts a trade-off, panelists say
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- Reply to Nelms
In addition, the nucs provide power 24/7.
- Reply to Mike
The article states that "The Kitty Hawk WEA and Wilmington East WEA are under lease. These areas have the combined potential to generate upwards of 4 gigawatts of power, the equivalent output of four nuclear power plants." That is not really factually accurate when comparing apples to apples.
It is true that the nameplate capacity of the wind farm and four nuclear plants are both 4 gigawatts. But the capacity factor of a nuclear power plant ( the amount of power it actually produces compared to the nameplate capacity) is 90%. So 4 nuclear plants are capable of producing 3.6 gigawatts of power 24/7, 365 days a year. The average capacity factor of an off shore wind turbine is 45%. So the off shore wind farm is capable of producing 1.8 gigawatts of power 24/7, 365 days a year. A good amount of power for sure, but only the equivalent of 2 typical nuclear plants.
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July OBX Park News – Your Official Sneak Peek: Pathways to Your National Parks!
Outer Banks Forever is proud to support our Outer Banks national parks in a variety of ways — large and small.
Your Official Sneak Peek:
Pathways to Your National Parks!Outer Banks Forever is proud to support our Outer Banks national parks in a variety of ways — large and small. Today, we’re excited to share more with you about our largest undertaking to date, our Pathways to Your National Parks project! The first stage of this project will allow our parks to build a new paved, multi-use path on the grounds of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse that will better connect our community and our parks.
Check out this video courtesy of our friends at REAL Watersports to learn more about this exciting project and be on the lookout for more details in the coming weeks!
See you in our parks,
Director, Outer Banks ForeverSupport Our Parks Today Meet Your Ranger: Isabel Gonzalez
We’d like you introduce you to Isabel Gonzalez,Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) Intern atFort Raleigh National Historic Site. She spends her workdays sharing the stories of the Freedmen’s Colony, the Carolina Algonquian peoples, and European settlers on Roanoke Island, swearing in new Junior Rangers, designing new educational wayside signs, and helping park visitors have the best experience possible.
When she’s not working, you can find Isabel listening to music, exploring the outdoors, baking, and sewing!
Meet Isabel Partner Spotlight: Swells’a Brewing Beer Company
We’re excited to introduce you to our friends at Swells’a Brewing!Sam Harriss and her co-owners opened their beautiful brewery in Kill Devil Hills with a passion for brewing beer and a commitment to protecting the environment. We’re grateful they’ve chosen to partner with us through their 1% For the Planet membership. Each year, they will donate 1% of their profits directly to us to help us protect and enhance our Outer Banks national parks.
Check out our Partner Spotlight to hear from Sam about how Swells’a Brewing got started and what its unique name means!
Learn More All About Sea Turtles: Sea Turtle Hatchlings
Our Ask A BioTech series continues this month with your most asked questions about sea turtle hatchlings!
Supervisory Biological Technician Paul Doshkov gives us a look at the early lives of these favorite island visitors, including how they find their way to the ocean, what they eat, and the threats they face. (Hint: you can help prevent some of these!)
Learn More There’s Still Time to Adopt Your Sea Turtle Nest!
Thank you to everyone who has adopted a sea turtle nest this summer! Biological technicians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore are tracking 260 nests (and counting) so far this season, a significant increase in nests from last year.
Through our Adopt A Sea Turtle Nest program, you can symbolically adopt an active sea turtle nest at the Seashore and receive an official adoption certificate and information about your specific nest when it hatches.
We expect the first nests to start hatching in the next few weeks and we currently have 151 nests that have been adopted. Our goal is to have 200 nests adopted by the end of August when we’ll close adoptions for the season — we’re almost there!
Adopt Your Nest Today Please note: Nature belongs to all of us. No individual or group that participates in this program may claim ownership of a sea turtle nest, eggs, or hatchlings. For the safety of the sea turtles, your exact nest location will not be shared until after it has hatched.Photo Credits: Isabel Gonzalez, Swells’a Brewing Beer Company,
Cape Hatteras National Seashore.Video Credit: Jeffrey O’Neil, REAL Watersports.
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U-boat artifacts, divers reveal history of Torpedo Junction
A new exhibit at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum reminds us that a vicious German U-boat campaign in the early months of World War II had once raged offshore the barrier islands, setting the sea ablaze and filling the air with explosions.
A simulated view through a submarine’s periscope is included in the new exhibit at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Photo: Catherine Kozak
U-boat artifacts, divers reveal history of Torpedo Junction by Catherine Kozak
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Dare County Boat Builders Foundation, Dare County, NC
The Dare County Boat Builders Foundation is a non-profit, 501c3 organization dedicated to preserving Dare County’s boat building heritage by actively supporting the students and families within its community.
Click here for more on Dare County Youth Boat Builders Program
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June OBX Park News
Whether you are planning to visit the Outer Banks this summer, or live here and want to get to know our islands a little better, we hope you’ll make time to appreciate and rediscover our parks.
June OBX Park News: Juneteenth Celebrations, Partnership Spotlight, Ask A BioTech, and more!
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USACE: Oregon Inlet Unnavigable by Most Vessels
Cruisers Net has long advised navigation of Oregon Inlet only by shallow draft vessels with current local knowledge.
Oregon Inlet unnavigable by most vessels: Army Corps
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore Needs Your Help!
Outer Banks Forever is working with our national park staff to coordinate a beach cleanup effort on Hatteras Island in the coming days once road and weather conditions improve.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Needs Your Help!
For more updates from the National Park Service, please visit Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s News Releases page.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Jessica Barnes, Director
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Whistling Past the Hatteras Graveyard by Peter Swanson
I don’t have a problem going “outside” when transiting the East Coast. But there is one section I won’t do outside—the Outer Banks. See Grounded Vessel Afloat Again, Ocracoke Island, NC. Our thanks to Peter Swanson for sharing his knowledge.
A week after Vivens Aqua went aground, two buddy-boating recreational fishing vessels—Bite Me and Reel Lucky—suffered the same fate on another Outer Banks beach. Their owners had become disoriented in fog.
Whistling Past the Hatteras Graveyard
from Loose Cannon by Peter SwansonLNM: Hatteras Inlet, Buoy 18A Added, Pamlico Sound, NC
This channel buoy is the east side of the channel connecting the Inlet with the maintained channel into Hatteras Village.
THE FOLLOWING AID TO NAVIGATION HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
- HATTERAS INLET CHANNEL BUOY 18A (LLNR 28761 [35°12.5026N / 075°43.1635W, 35.208376 / -75.719391]) HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN APPROX POSIT 35-12-30.153N, 075-43-09.806W (35°12.5026N / 075°43.1635W, 35.208376 / -75.719391)
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NC Coast’s People: Last Daughter of Davis Ridge by David Cecelski
Few coastal visitors know that the secluded hammock of Davis Ridge was once home to an extraordinary community founded by liberated slaves.
Mullet fishing camp at Shackleford Banks, near Beaufort, circa 1875-80. From George Brown Goode, ed., The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, (Washington, D.C.: Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 1884-87), sec. 5, vol. 2.
Our coast’s people: Last daughter of Davis Ridge
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Coastal Happenings – North Carolina Coastal Federation
This year the Federation is celebrating working together for a healthy coast for the past 40 years.
Dear friends of the coast, Welcome to 2022!
Thanks to you we’re starting this year on a high note: we met our matching challenge for Recycle for Reefs! Your gifts in December put us over the top and we are thrilled to use $60,000 to support oyster shell recycling. Learn more about recycling here.
As you may know by now, there’s another exciting way to support oyster restoration: Adopt an Oyster. The best time to adopt oysters, in our humble opinion, is right now – for Valentine’s Day! Visit the adoption page, here, to honor your loved one, snag one of our limited edition 40th anniversary oyster knives, enjoy a discount coupon for Locals Seafood and their ship anywhere oyster box, which could be a great date night idea! You can also upgrade your adoption and get a custom valentine. To share the love, adopt before February 9th!
Stay safe and warm,
-Your friends at the North Carolina Coastal Federation
This year the Federation is celebrating working together for a healthy coast for the past 40 years. To honor this major milestone we created a video highlighting why we do what we do and how crucial it is that we have help from everyone as we work toward our goal of protecting and restoring the North Carolina coast.
Are you, or do you know, a graduating high school senior living in one of our 20 coastal counties who is dedicated to the coastal environment? There is still time to apply for the Coastal Stewardship Award! In the spring of 2022, we will be awarding three $1,000 awards to graduating high school seniors. Applications must be received by 11:59 pm on February 13th, 2022. The award decision will be announced on April 1st. To learn more, or to apply, click here.
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Currituck County, NC: More than a Vacation Destination
The Outer Banks county has a rich history of agriculture, political leadership and intriguing people, writes historian Eric Medlin.
Currituck County: More than a vacation destination
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What’s on the line? It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a sea robin
The sea robin is one weird-looking fish.
A striped sea robin. Photo: Robert Michelson
What’s on the line? It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a sea robin
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Lost photographs: Remembering NC’s fishing communities by David Cecelski
Historian David Cecelski illustrates with a series of photographs life in 1930s and 1940s fishing communities as well as the man who took the photos, Charles Farrell.
Manns Harbor, 1937-39. Photo: Charles A. Farrell, courtesy, State Archives of North Carolina
Lost photographs: Remembering NC’s fishing communities
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December OBX Park News: OBX holiday gift guide, Meet Your Ranger, and aviation celebration!
On November 30, we celebrated Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving, and the results are in: In just 24 hours you helped us raise $1,500 for our OBX national parks!
On November 30, we celebrated Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving, and the results are in: In just 24 hours you helped us raise $1,500 for our OBX national parks! That is nearly double what you gave last year and we are so grateful for your support.Our parks faced new challenges this year and we don’t see that trend changing anytime soon. Your generosity allows us to fund projects that create new ways for you to experience our parks, while also protecting the history, culture, and environment that are vital to our OBX community.If you missed Giving Tuesday, don’t worry; you can still make your end of year gift today to help make exciting new projects possible like a paved, multi-use path at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, an artist in residence program, the Aviation Trail Through Time – and more.Here are a few ways you can help our parks today to become more resilient and protect them for generations to come:Thank you for showing love for our parks,
Meet Your Ranger: Carmen Pantaleo
Our Meet Your Ranger series introduces you to the many amazing people who support our Outer Banks national parks every day!We’d like you introduce you to Carmen Pantaleo, Special Parks Uses Coordinator for all three of our OBX national parks. None of his days are ever the same – Carmen works with individuals, families, contractors, utility providers, film crews and others tp provide permits for activities like weddings, sporting events, construction projects, filming for television and the big screen, and memorial services.In his free time, Carmen enjoys walking and shelling on our Outer Banks beaches with his wife, Patty, and their dog, Wesley, and reading the late Gen. Colin Powell’s books.Our OBX Forever 2021 Gift Guide is here!Just in time for the holidays: Outer Banks Forever gifts for the OBX lover in your life!Our merchandise that is sold in park stores is now available online. Each item in our collection represents something you love about the Outer Banks — from sea turtles to the Wright brothers’ famous 1903 Flyer.Even better, when you purchase an item from our new online store, you help protect and enhance our amazing Outer Banks national parks that hold so many special memories for each of us.Check out our gift guide and learn more about the park projects you are supporting!
Celebrate the 118th Anniversaryof the First Flight
On Friday, December 17th, we’ll be celebrating the 118th anniversary of the first flight!If you can’t join us in person, you can still experience the celebration from wherever you are – tune in to our Facebook page where we’ll be joined by our friends at the National Aviation Heritage Area to jointly livestream the ceremonies being held at Wright Brothers National Memorial and Dayton Aviation National Historical Park.The event hosted by the First Flight Society at Wright Brothers National Memorial will begin at 9:00 a.m. (EST), and the celebration at Dayton Aviation National Historical Park will begin at 10:00 a.m. (EST).Highlights of this year’s event include the First Flight Society’s induction of Dr. Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space, into the honorary Dr. Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine, and Col. Gail Seymour Halverson, a World War II veteran U.S. Air Force pilot famously known as the “Candy Bomber,” making a special trip to the Outer Banks for the celebration at the age of 101!A Sneak Peek Just for You…
In celebration of the anniversary of the first flight, we’ve got an exciting new project launching on Monday!We’re putting the Ohio/North Carolina rivalry to rest with a new way for you to experience the story of the Wright Brothers. We’ve been working with an amazing group of aviation partners to bring you the Wright Route.Here is a sneak peek before we announce it to the public…enjoy!Photo Credits: Carmen Pantaleo, National Park ServiceOuter Banks Forever is theofficial nonprofit partner of our Outer Banks national parks, helping to protect and enhance these special places.Learn more at www.obxforever.org
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Spotted Seatrout in NC Coastal Waters
Recreational fishermen in North Carolina harvest, on average, 1.1 million spotted seatrout or over 1.9 million pounds a year, second only to Florida.
A spotted seatrout freshly caught off of the North Carolina coast. Photo: N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries
What’s on the line? Spotted seatrout, aka ‘speckled trout’
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Migratory Fish’s Value to North Carolina
Migratory fish have long played a significant role in the recreational and commercial fisheries that contribute to the economy of North Carolina and their value was recognized long before European settlement, but overfishing has taken a toll in more recent time.
Recognition of migratory fish’s value predates colonization
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