RALEIGH — While the need to manage water in the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula is a centuries-old endeavor, rising sea levels and increasing impacts from climate change have been overwhelming prior flood-mitigation
Officials say that because water knows no boundaries, a basin-wide approach was needed to better address water management challenges on both private and public lands.
The museum in Elizabeth City is offering the talk Nov. 15 with a state archaeologist on the effort to conserve the dugout canoes excavated from Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park.
Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge may be "the Yellowstone of the East," according to Wendy Stanton, who manages the refuge teeming with wildlife that welcomes more than 30,000 visitors annually.