EDITORIAL: New Voice for Inlet: Group to Advocate Fishing Village Values on Land Use
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 23--Little River and Murrells Inlet used to be sleepy villages with glorious waterfront locations. But because of their beauty, both villages attracted the commercial and residential developers, and grew exponentially as a result.
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By Patricia Smith, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 5--MOREHEAD CITY -- Commercial fishermen in the state are taking their arguments against the handling of proposed new deepwater fishing regulations to Washington.   And U.S. Rep.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 25--The Pierce County Council isn't the only local government whose leaders are testing the choppy waters of growth-impact fees.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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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 Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 9--Five more Sanders Beach property owners are seeking state permission to build six docks along the popular Coeur d'Alene shoreline in an attempt to secure their waterfront rights.
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Fishermen draft in the Scottish Government to help fight attempts to cut the time that boats can spend at sea.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 8--The Palmetto Bay Village Council voted 4-1 Monday to ask the county to provide management plans for a proposed wetland project at Bill Sadowski Park and Nature Center, along with a guaranteed budget for its future maintenance.
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By Matt Bewley, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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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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By Stephanie Vosk, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Sep. 12--MASHPEE -- Around 40 Popponesset residents have signed on to a  suit to fight landowners looking to block passage to an access road to a small  beach known as Popponesset Spit.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 6--Mike Fleagle cast the deciding vote in his first Federal Subsistence Board meeting Tuesday, rejecting an attempt to create a subsistence fishery on the Kenai Peninsula.
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By Howard W. French  Where as many 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea stare glumly at reminders of their loss.