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UPDATED: 9:10 p. m. , 6/11/21. Interstate 79 just north of Burnsville has reopened after high water closed the roadway earlier on Friday, Braxton County dispatchers said. The Gerald Freeman Campground at Sutton Lake has been evacuated due to high water. Dispatchers said nobody had to be rescued. UPDATED: 7:40 p. m. , 6/11/21. Dispatchers in Braxton County said both northbound lanes of Interstate 79 are closed near mile marker 80 due to high.
Silver Falls lodge re-opens for business
The Silver Falls Lodge and Conference Center has a new name, a new operator and a new status open for business.
Now called Smith Creek Village in Silver Falls State Park, it has reopened after being closed for six months after the previous operator walked away from its contract with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department amid COVID-19 restrictions.
Silver Falls Hospitality is the new management company.
“We’re very happy that park visitors now have these overnight options and services once again,” Park Manager Guy Rodrigue said in a news release. “Silver Falls Hospitality has hit the ground running and we’re eager to help them succeed in this new partnership.”
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Rising seas a result of climate change are inundating North Carolina’s coast and killing off trees.
Along the coastal barrier islands of the Atlantic coast, maritime forests are home to mammals, reptiles, insects, plants, and migrating birds. They’re vital to coastal and storm resilience. And in areas undisturbed, some of these coastal trees date back to the 1st century.
In recent decades, commercial development has threatened these ecosystems. But research shows that another perhaps even greater threat is not only clearing forests, but burying them beneath the sea.
Ghostly forests of snags
You can see them from a plane, and even from space. Marshes along North Carolina’s coast, peppered with dying or already-dead trees. When I first moved to Wilmington, I was puzzled by them tall, lanky skeletons, pale limbs outstretched and barren. Void of life, and still standing.