. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. V \ilson and Barbara Snowden are keepers of Currituck history. She is a school teacher and Currituck County historian, and he is a businessman, farmer, longtime volunteer fire department chief and boat restorer. Wilson Snowden helped raise and restore the battery blind owned by the Currituck Wildlife Guild, the only one he knows of in the county. Wilson Snowden heads out to set decoys on Currituck Sound. International Migratory Game Bird Treaty. In 1918, Congress voted its provisions into law. The nation's
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. V \ilson and Barbara Snowden are keepers of Currituck history. She is a school teacher and Currituck County historian, and he is a businessman, farmer, longtime volunteer fire department chief and boat restorer. Wilson Snowden helped raise and restore the battery blind owned by the Currituck Wildlife Guild, the only one he knows of in the county. Wilson Snowden heads out to set decoys on Currituck Sound. International Migratory Game Bird Treaty. In 1918, Congress voted its provisions into law. The nation's remaining game markets pulled all birds from their public stalls. The era of market hunting for waterfowl was over for all but poachers and unscrupulous dealers. Any ducks sold in the United States had to be raised on waterfowl farms and harvested by means other than shooting, under permit from the Department of Agriculture. L I ^ate one afternoon, the day after I meet Saunders in Chesapeake, I drive through the village of Currituck on the western shore of the sound, past the Knotts Island ferry, crowded with school buses, and park in front of the tiny brick Currituck County jail, built around 1820. Across the street, warm golden light streams through the windows of the Snowden store. Wilson Snowden closed the store in 1986,97 years after it opened in the vibrant county seat. The original headboard counters remain, as do ornately bracketed wooden shelves, now chockablock with old wooden decoys, miscellaneous tools and a few dusty store ledgers that date back to the first years of the century. Wilson and Barbara Snowden are keepers of Currituck history. She is a schoolteacher and Currituck County historian, and he is a businessman, farmer, longtime volunteer fire department chief and boat restorer. As twilight fades, we ferret through the store's ledgers, searching for references to the old market hunting trade. We find notations of shot and powder bought and sold, bu
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