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Tuckasegee River, biodiversity, revives after dam removal two years ago
Two years after watching a hydraulic hammer begin removing the Dillsboro Dam from the Tuckasegee River (pictured above), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist Mark Cantrell is excited about what the removal is coming to mean for life beneath the river’s surface. Continue reading
Proposed rail trail could bring millions to area, study says
Construction of a multi-use recreational trail along the inactive Norfolk Southern Ecusta rail line would generate an estimated $42 million one-time return and an additional $9.4 million in annual revenue for the area, a consulting firm said Wednesday. Continue reading
Tagged Greenways, Rail Trails
Marketing mystery: Tourism effort centers on Brown Mountain Lights
Two orange orbs, just about 10 feet (3 meters) off the ground, floated past Steve Woody and his father as they hunted deer more than 50 years ago. The mysterious lights passed them, then dropped down the side of a gorge in the Blue Ridge foothills. Continue reading
Tagged Blue Ridge Mountains
Orton’s old is new
Landowner Louis Moore Bacon is determined to turn back the clock at Orton Plantation. Bacon, the direct descendent of the plantation’s founding family who purchased the Brunswick County property in 2010, is working to restore Orton’s 8,500 acres to the antebellum rice plantation it was in the 1700s, Orton’s Property Manager, Dillon Epp, said. Continue reading
Tagged Loblolly Pine, longleaf pine, Orton Plantation, Wilmington
County proposes watershed allocation transfer to towns
Moore County has taken the first steps to transfer more than 46,000 acres of its initial watershed allocation to the county’s 11 municipalities. Continue reading
Tagged Moore County, watershed allocation
