NATURALIST'S 



NOTEBOOK 



Notes 

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iien it comes to learning about 

 the coast, there's no substitute for experience. 

 So it is that North Carolina State University 

 students embark upon Bear Island at Ham- 

 mocks Beach State Park for a first-hand view of 

 the environment 



The field study is part of the semester-long 

 Multidisciplinary Studies course, "Coastal and 

 Ocean Frontiers," otherwise known as MDS 

 220. The class is taught by North Carolina Sea 

 Grant's Lundie Spence, a marine education 

 specialist, and Walter Clark, a coastal policy 

 specialist Experiencing nature is the best way 

 to judge the value of public trust lands, barrier 

 islands or water quality, they say. 



Come along and share the students' 

 discoveries and observations: 



Continued 



Bear Island has some of the most 

 spectacular, intact dune fields on the North 



Carolina Coast. Plioto by Ken Taylor 



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