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the twenty-first century. With a fuller understanding of the state’s coastal region
from a geologic and ecologic point of view, North Carolina’s future challenge will
be to devise a coastal management and development plan that can advance in harmony with the realities of our magnificent natural coast (and its dragons)!
Fig. 11.13 The East Carolina University Coastal Studies Institute at Wanchese, Roanoke Island,
North Carolina. (Image by J.C. McCord)
Fig. 11.14 The old Oregon Inlet Bridge (foreground) built in 1962 is being replaced (January,
2019) by a new high-rise bridge across the entire inlet/outlet. (Image by S. Riggs)
S. R. Riggs
the twenty-first century. With a fuller understanding of the state’s coastal region
from a geologic and ecologic point of view, North Carolina’s future challenge will
be to devise a coastal management and development plan that can advance in harmony with the realities of our magnificent natural coast (and its dragons)!
Fig. 11.13 The East Carolina University Coastal Studies Institute at Wanchese, Roanoke Island,
North Carolina. (Image by J.C. McCord)
Fig. 11.14 The old Oregon Inlet Bridge (foreground) built in 1962 is being replaced (January,
2019) by a new high-rise bridge across the entire inlet/outlet. (Image by S. Riggs)
S. R. Riggs