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Tag Archives: nature
  • Clean Air and Water Advocates Launch Pipeline Monitoring Effort

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 1, 2018

    Group Will Watch Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction for Environmental Protection Violations Contact: Doug Jackson, Sierra Club, 202.495.3045, doug.jackson@sierraclub.org Forrest English, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper, 252.946.7211, pamtarrk@soundrivers.org Christine Ellis, Executive Director, Winyah Rivers,…


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  • Sound Rivers Continues Legal Battle to Protect Blounts Creek

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 14, 2018

    Sound Rivers and Blounts Creek community members are back to the courts to defend a recent legal win. In late December, a state court vacated a state permit…


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  • Upper Tar River Facts and Figures

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 26, 2017

    The Tar-Pamlico River has two ecologically distinct regions within the same river, the “Upper Tar” and “Lower Tar-


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  • Water Spotlight- The Upper Tar River

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 26, 2017

    By Matt Butler, We live in a bigger  and better world, but when it comes to the streams and tributaries of the upper Tar River, small…


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  • The Rise of “Zombie Crabs”

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on February 16, 2017

    By Chris Moore, ECU, Dept. of Biology


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  • Petition filed to protect Blounts Creek

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 3, 2017

    On December 28th, attorneys from the Southern Environmental Law Center filed an appeal of a lower


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  • Water Trail suffers only minor flood damage

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 12, 2016

    The Tar-Pamlico Water Trail survived…


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  • Exploring River Parks

    Posted by Heather Deck on October 6, 2016

    By Liz Houde Now that the weather is getting cooler, we hope you’ll get out on trips to explore the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico watersheds. There is so much to see…


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  • Construction to Begin on Greenville Tar River Camping Platforms

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 31, 2016

    Sound Rivers is excited to announce that construction will begin on the first of three camping platforms in Greenville in…


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  • Loose on the Neuse 2016

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 29, 2016

    On Saturday, July…


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  • Youth Kayaking Program in Full Swing

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 19, 2016

    Members of the Boys and Girls Club in Tarboro kayaked on the Tar…


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  • Clean Water Supports River Gems

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 8, 2016

    By Breanna Crowell, Stanback Intern Much like how we as humans have certain requirements for where we live, plant and animal species often need their homes to meet a variety…


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  • Kids River Fest Entertains 1200

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 8, 2016

    Families flocked to River Park North in Greenville on May 14th for Sound Rivers’ second annual Kids’ River Fest. The sun was


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  • Havelock Bypass to Impact Croatan Forest

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 8, 2016

    In December of 2015, the NC DOT finalized an environmental impact statement for the proposed Havelock Bypass for Route 70. Lower…


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  • Celebrate NC State Parks

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 8, 2016

    State Parks Celebrate Centennial By Liz Houde If…


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