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[jwgnc]

Two Golden Pheasants gained their freedom when their enclosure, across the French Broad River from Marshall, washed away during Helene.  Somehow they survived the winter, and the owners have been trying to catch them ever since. 

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[Onslow]

Jalapeno Margarita @ El Frias, Lampassas TX.  Best damn Mexican food I've ever eaten .

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[Onslow]

Reed Creek is becoming a lot more usable thanks to a newly established blue way

https://swvasun.com/wythe-completes-new-public-portage-parks-along-reed-creek-blueway-p12605-10.htm

The Kent Lane access is the uppermost near the I-81 Bridge (Wytheville) located at the Wythe County Joint Public Service Authority.  The water downstream is fairly low gradient, pastoral.

A second access is located just downstream of Max Meadows at Miller Portage Park has been established last week. The water downstream is more wooded, but the gradient is still low.

Carter Wayside Park has been open for a while and is more of a park than a canoe access, but legal access is access. Modifications to the steam bed took place here to accommodate the interstate.  The gradient picks up some here and at Grahams Forge. There possible take outs on private land near the New or one can paddle down to Allisonia.

I waded a little near Grahams Forge years ago, but only for a short while. I have no idea how this stream fishes. I suspect minimum flow for canoeing is 160 cfs while 300 cfs would be the upper end for float fishing which means a small window for good flows.

[trout-r-us]

Nice to see new access opening up in a world that seems to have been moving in the opposite direction for too long.

[Onslow]

Yadkin river canoe access @ Roaring River has been upgraded.

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[Woolly Bugger]

Shrimpgate: New bill to protect waterways would 'destroy' shrimp industry in North Carolina, critics warn
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Trawlers wouldn't be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina's inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal passed by the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Critics say the measure, if approved, would destroy the state's shrimping industry.

https://www.wral.com/story/shrimpgate-new-bill-to-protect-waterways-would-destroy-shrimp-industry-in-north-carolina-critics-warn/22055669/

[trout-r-us]

https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

[trout-r-us]

Shrimpgate: New bill to protect waterways would 'destroy' shrimp industry in North Carolina, critics warn
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Trawlers wouldn't be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina's inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal passed by the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Critics say the measure, if approved, would destroy the state's shrimping industry.

https://www.wral.com/story/shrimpgate-new-bill-to-protect-waterways-would-destroy-shrimp-industry-in-north-carolina-critics-warn/22055669/

A win (for now) for the shrimpers and those of us who enjoy eating wild local shrimp. 👍

"A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives"

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article309400525.html#storylink=cpy

[Woolly Bugger]

Amelia Earhart's plane on remote Pacific island
Expedition sets to investigate mysterious 'Taraia Object' on Nikumaroro Island in search for Earhart's plane.

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Purdue University is launching a new expedition to locate Amelia Earhart's missing plane on a remote island in the South Pacific, based on evidence suggesting that it may have crashed there, according to NBC News. The university, which played a role in Earhart's 1937 flight by providing funding and employing her as a career counselor for women, is sending a team to Nikumaroro Island this November.

An expedition will investigate the mysterious "Taraia Object" on Nikumaroro Island, focusing on a "visual anomaly" in satellite imagery that may indicate the location of Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra. The object was first flagged in satellite photos following a tropical cyclone in 2015, which may have shifted sand and revealed the plane.

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-859883

video here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/researchers-announce-new-effort-find-amelia-earharts-plane-rcna216286