http://cfrw.us/blog News about and of interest to CFRW Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:09:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="396" caption="Click image to see full size poster"][/caption] http://cfrw.us/blog/2010/03/12/recycle-revival-march-27th/ The long awaited fish bypass project at Lock & Dam #1 has gotten a green light.  So for everybody who's been wondering "where's my stimulus money?" well, here it is. From the Feb 7, 2010 Star News: More than a decade after it first promised to do it, the Army Corps of ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2010/02/11/rock-ramps-at-lock-dam-1-is-a-go-yippee/ The Cape Fear River Watch Board of Directors adopted the following position statement at its September 2009 meeting. Solid Waste Management for New Hanover County [caption id="" align="alignright" width="459" caption="New Hanover County Landfill"][/caption] Cape Fear River Watch (CFRW) supports the environmentally safe and efficient handling of solid waste in New Hanover County ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2010/02/11/cfrw-position-statement-on-solid-waste-management-in-new-hanover-county/ From the December 13 Raleigh News and Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/238382.html ELIZABETHTOWN Like the river that filled so much of his life, Horace W. Butler Jr. is moving slow. More than 88 years, a few bouts with arthritis and an 8-foot tree limb that "cracked my head like a coconut" will do that ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/12/14/last-of-the-river-men-has-stories-to-tell/ Cape Fear River Watch has announced that, as part of its Second Annual Invitational Striper Tournament, it will set aside one entry slot (including boat and guide) for a young fisherman/woman to be selected from entrants to an essay contest. As the tournament is already fully subscribed this is the ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/11/19/junior-angler-wanted-for-2nd-annual-striper-tournament/ In many ways the Second Annual Greenfield Lake Cypress Festival resembled the first: it rained, the bands played on, crowds stayed away in droves, those who came out had a good (but soggy) time. The irony is that one of the lessons we learned from the 2008 event was to have ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/09/29/cypress-festival-2009/ CFRW's monthly padding series visited Shelter Creek last weekend.  Dire predictions of rain were wrong, wrong, wrong. 28 paddlers turned out for ~6 miles upstream and lunch at Holland's. http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/09/23/paddling-shelter-creek/      The efforts to protect Island Creek, the Northeast Cape Fear River and the entire region from the ravages of a fast tracked enormous coal fired cement kiln and adjacent deep pit limestone quarry plopped in the middle of fragile wetlands continue.  In  Raleigh Rep. Carolyn Justice has been ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/06/26/titan-update-we-need-your-help-again/ http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/06/23/friends-of-the-lower-cape-fear-fundraiser/ For all of you kayak fishermen out there this Saturday (May 16) will be a day you want to mark on your calendar. Renowned kayak fisherman Jimbo Meador will be giving on and off water clinics on kayak fishing, paddleboard fishing, and cast netting from a kayak. There will also ... http://cfrw.us/blog/2009/05/14/kayak-fishing-clinic-and-watercraft-demo/