Annual report on Shackleford Banks horses released
At the end of 2020, 117 horses lived on the North Carolina barrier island, including two 27-year-old mares.
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Jan 17, 2021
HARKERS ISLAND, NC – The 2020 annual findings report on the Shackleford Banks horses has been released by Cape Lookout National Seashore and the Foundation for Shackleford Horses. This report, covering the calendar year 2020, is available on the park’s website at: https://go.nps.gov/horsereports
Two stallions on Shackleford Banks clash. Thirty-eight percent of horses on the barrier island are male.
National Park Service At the end of 2020 there were 117 horses on Shackleford Banks.
The herd is 62% female and 38% male. Of the horses over 23 years of age, there are 2 males and 8 females.
Professor Collaborates With National Park Service in Transforming Wild Horse Research Into Free Curriculum
Jessa Madosky, professor of instruction I, biology, has been researching a population of wild horses in Shackleford Banks, NC, for more than a decade. When one of her collaborators at the National Park Service wrote a grant to develop a curriculum on the horses for elementary and middle schools, Madosky was named the main researcher on the grant.
Jessa Madosky, professor of instruction I, biology, has been researching of a population of wild horses in Shackleford Banks, NC, for more than a decade. Her research is now the basis for a free curriculum for elementary and middle schools.
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Dive teams, special agents return to Outer Banks in case of slain paratrooper December 10, 2020 Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was reported missing May 23 while on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip with fellow soldiers at Cape Lookout National Seashore. (National Park Service)
Army Criminal Investigation Command agents and members of the FBI’s Evidence Recovery and Dive Teams are currently conducting searches near the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina as part of the investigation into the death of Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez, 21. Roman-Martinez, an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was reported missing May 23 while on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip with fellow soldiers.