In March the 12-member DLITE Board of the Nature Conservancy, Worcester County, National Park Service, Rural Development Center, Salisbury Zoo, Sussex County, and local business owners met to add six members to the board in order to garner more Delaware and Virginia participation. The board also changed the bylaws to require a 2/3 majority vote for spending monies appropriated from the First State. New additions to the board will be Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Director Dr. Bruce Richards, and Delaware Sea Grant Administrator Jim Faulk rendering Delaware with seven members on the 18-member board. The new bylaws also call for two vice presidents and one president, rotating annually, to represent each state.
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New Birding Weekend Trips Filling FastThe Ninth Annual Delmarva Birding Weekend on April 23-25 features four new trips and those trips are filling fast. Each year, the birding weekend celebrates the northward migration of thousands of songbirds, shorebirds and raptors that pass through the Delmarva Peninsula in spring- as well as the birds that call the region home. All are over half full when was posted.
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Frogs and turtles and snakes... Oh my!Eastern Shore residents are again gearing up for the annual Great Worcester Herp Search Saturday, May 8. It is then that volunteers will scour county lands to locate and identify reptiles and amphibians.
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New Junction And Breakwater Trail A Hot Ticket In Delaware
A new biking and walking trail at Cape Henlopen State Park could be the first phase in linking Lewes and Rehoboth. The Junction and Breakwater Trail was officially opened Dec. 4, 2003 during a ribbon cutting at the trail head off Wolfe Neck Road on the southwestern side of Cape Henlopen State Park midway between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
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A new biking and walking trail at Cape Henlopen State Park could be the first phase in linking Lewes and Rehoboth. The Junction and Breakwater Trail was officially opened Dec. 4, 2003 during a ribbon cutting at the trail head off Wolfe Neck Road on the southwestern side of Cape Henlopen State Park midway between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
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Jolly Roger Day Benefits BaysThe Aug. 15 "Jolly Roger Day" will offer more than $200 of the carnival-like amusement park's rides and games for just $25 a ticket or five for $110. The amusement rides are available 2-6 p.m., golf from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Speedworld from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and the waterpark from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
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Numbers Down But Species Up In Record Bird CountThe Ocean City Christmas Bird Count numbers this winter showed the second highest species count ever in Ocean City's designated site and a number of avian surprises too.
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Kiptopeke State Park: A Raptor's ParadiseA gem near the southern end of Virginia's Eastern Shore is Kiptopeke State Park, a paradise for both bird watchers and fishermen. Since 1963, the site has been a focal point for bird migration studies in Virginia. Sponsored by the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory, volunteers capture, examine, weigh, band and release resident and migratory birds on the scenic peninsula each year.
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Local History Lecture Series On Tap Oral histories, old manuscripts, and historic photos will relay the lost cultural traditions and natural conditions of Ocean City and the surrounding area during a new lecture series this spring.
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Genesar: A Historic Beacon In South Point
"Rising sheer, gaunt and bare, but strangely appealing...leaping upward from the flat coastal plains...most noted of all the houses on Sinepuxent Neck," was the description in 1940 by one architectural historian viewing the long-vacant colonial dwelling known as Genesar in Worcester County.
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"Rising sheer, gaunt and bare, but strangely appealing...leaping upward from the flat coastal plains...most noted of all the houses on Sinepuxent Neck," was the description in 1940 by one architectural historian viewing the long-vacant colonial dwelling known as Genesar in Worcester County.
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DLITE to hoteliers, "Nature = Money!"
In March at the Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Trade Show, local hotel and restaurant owners joined Delmarva Low Impact Tourism guides for a seminar on nature tourism opportunities near Ocean City. DLITE Director Dave Wilson and Salisbury Zoo Director Jim Rapp told the group perhaps the best way to extend stays in the resort and to lengthen the shoulder season is to keep visitors abreast of the area's natural assets and ways to enjoy them. There were dozens of guided trips and packages many hoteliers did not know about. DLITE's Cape to Cape Birding Trail, Delmarva Biking Trail, and numerous kayak trails are what hotel owners said they want to market most. Paramount to DLITE's mission of creating new trails is to teach the importance of natural areas to the local economy.
