. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Dance Around Coastal Roger Schecter wrote in a March 19 memo to Preston Howard, director of Environmental Management. "Basically," Schecter wrote, "they are such a limited and impor- tant resource that they should be afforded the most protection possible under the ; Schecter also wrote that Environmental Management's propos- als to classify some wetlands based on the classification of adjacent waters might lead to a lack of protection for the very waters that need help mos
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Dance Around Coastal Roger Schecter wrote in a March 19 memo to Preston Howard, director of Environmental Management. "Basically," Schecter wrote, "they are such a limited and impor- tant resource that they should be afforded the most protection possible under the ; Schecter also wrote that Environmental Management's propos- als to classify some wetlands based on the classification of adjacent waters might lead to a lack of protection for the very waters that need help most. Environmental Management officials say they're being careful to ensure that threatened waters, such as those sensitive to nutrients, are indeed protected. The EMC is expected to begin considering the issue in late summer or early fall. Opposition at Oregon Inlet Out of state hands for now — but of interest to commercial fisher- men, geologists and environmental groups — are the proposed Oregon Inlet jetties. The 23-year-old controversy over the project escalated again recently, when Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited North Carolina to promote President Clinton's national service initiative. During that visit, Gov. Jim Hunt urged Babbitt to allow the project to go forward. Steve Murray. For years, the Department of Interior refused to permit the project, based on predictions that the jetties would cause erosion at the adjacent Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. But in 1990, under pressure from Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC; former Sen. Terry Sanford, D-NC; and former Gov. Jim Martin, then-Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan granted conditional permits for the twin mile- long rock structures. In December, the CRC cleared the way for the project to bypass a state ban on shoreline hardening by altering its rules to allow such structures — if their purpose is protecting commercial navigation areas of regional significance. The jetties h
Size: 1548px × 1614px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookcollectionunclibra, booksubjectoceanography
