Sea Change: Development is About to Alter Texas Coastal Hideaway
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PORT ARANSAS, Texas _ Island inertia sets in during the drive over the causeway from Corpus Christi.  An hour ago, hair and clothes mattered. But now nothing does, really, except the beach or the fishing.
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New development on the Tejon Ranch has environmentalists concerned about the health of a fragile landscape, where several distinct ecological regions converge.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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The next big development in computer technology may be growing in the muck of a nearby riverbed.
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The future of the Urban Development Boundary is up for grabs in Miami-Dade County as farmers and environmentalists face off about new construction.
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Federal officials are predicting that oil and gas production in the offshore, federally controlled waters of the Gulf of Mexico will increase during the next 10 years, reversing production decreases seen in 2003.
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A federal plan to buy thousands of flood-prone homes on Mississippi's hurricane-battered coast is shaping up to be far more modest than many residents had feared.
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Fishermen on this rocky, pine-studded peninsula have felt a creeping unease in recent years, as real estate prices leapt skyward and stories circulated up and down the coast of fishing piers sold to make room for million-dollar vacation homes.
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By Rebecca Holm, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 31--Ever since Hurricane Isabel battered Ocean View, Norfolk has gotten serious about protecting its beaches.
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By Neil Gonzales  REDWOOD CITY -- A stretch of the San Francisco Bay Trail will likely undergo a realignment as part of a major habitat-restoration project on Bair Island.
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. -- Farmland that was drained and diked more than 100 years ago would turn back into salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon under a 15-year plan for the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 13--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Developers have changed their plan for a controversial apartment complex and will build townhouses instead.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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By Deirdre Fernandes, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--VIRGINIA BEACH -- The city is increasing its stock of historic homes, but concerns about how to best manage them are pitting long time grass-roots activists against each other.
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By The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 12--Hurricane Rita caused a ton of damage in Southeast Texas, and Sea Rim State Park was one of its most prominent victims. The park might reopen this Labor Day, nearly two years after Rita.
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By Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 17--For years, South Baltimore residents have thought a key piece of city property on the Inner Harbor was destined to become yet another high-rise, blocking even more of their shrinking view of the water.