A rising junior at UNC Chapel Hill, Tara Hinton has spent her summer listening to oral histories and researching how Down East Carteret County residents are responding.
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HARKERS ISLAND – About a quarter-mile along the Soundside Loop Trail behind Cape Lookout National Seashore’s visitor center is a two-board wooden fence, indicating that hikers need to make a sharp left turn to stay on the path.
A public science project at Cape Lookout National Seashore is part of a bigger communication effort to have a conversation about what ghost forests represent.
On the wooded shoreline of the North River, pockets of gray, lifeless pine trees stand like eerie exclamations to an environment in crisis. Known as "ghost forests," these dead trees are lost when too much saltwater comes onto land and slowly poisons the freshwater.