* Incorporate St. Simons and Sea islands? Yes No
* The 161-mile stretch of the Intercoastal Waterway that makes up the Savannah District – from Port Royal Sound in South Carolina to Cumberland Island Sound between Georgia and Florida – can be treacherous and full of surprises to unseasoned and inattentive pilots due to shoaling and the lack of federal funding to maintain a safe channel depth
- Brunswick News, 12-14-05

* Tensions are still brewing between fishermen and surfers at the Jacksonville Beach fishing pier following a weekend brawl between the two sides
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 12-14-05

* New Smyrna beach restoration set to begin in January
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-15-05

* Folly residents criticize council over lack of height restrictions
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-14-05

* Florida's big business lobby added its voice Monday to the debate over oil and gas drilling off the state's coast, arguing energy costs are too high to leave resources untapped
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-13-05

* Net fishermen determined to fight. Lawsuits, protests aimed at (Florida) state net rules. The amendment, approved by voters in 1994, prohibited gill and entangling nets in Florida waters. It also prohibited nets larger than 500 square feet from nearshore and inshore waters
- Tallahassee Democrat, 12-13-05

* Preliminary subdivision proposal calls for 190 homes on Long Island which includes about 140 high land acres that stretch more than two miles into the vast marsh between James, Peas, Oak, Morris and Folly islands
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-11-05

* Gulf fisheries prepare for new snapper rules
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-11-05

* Perdido Key may be poised for rebirth
- Pensacola News Journal, 12-11-05

* In a few weeks, the contractor demolishing the old Cooper River bridges will face its biggest challenge: removing the spans of the John P. Grace and Silas N. Pearman bridges from over the shipping channel of the fourth-largest container port in the country
* Myrtle Beach weighs taller buildings
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-10-05

* The long, arduous process of auctioning the Durango-Georgia properties came to an end late Wednesday night as the bankruptcy trustees announced Osprey Cove developer LandMar as the highest and best bidder out of three qualified, interested parties
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 12-9-05

* There is more than just new sand needed out on St. Joseph Peninsula
- Port St. Joe Star, 12-9-05

* Closure of surfboard foam company wipes out industry
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-9-05

* Cool weather and shark bites: It's not as rare a combination as you might think. As four people learned in October and November, swimming and surfing around Ponce de Leon Inlet can be as risky in fall as in the summer
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-8-05

* Hilton Head Island took a step toward finalizing much-debated new rules regulating abandoned boats on the beaches
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 12-7-05

* A brief economic boom that Gulf Coast shrimpers enjoyed after Hurricane Katrina is coming to an end -- and all for want of a cold place to store the tremendous amounts of shrimp now being hauled in by the few trawlers the storm left working, shrimpers say
- Mobile Register, 12-6-05

* In Depth: Hurricane anxiety? Coastal building still booming
- St. Augustine Record, 11-4-05

* Micropaleontologist Scott Hippensteel says little specks of rare fossil shell of a marine microorganism suggest that severe hurricanes were much more frequent 1,000-3,000 years ago than they have been for the past 1,000 years
- Charleston Post and Courier, 12-3-05

* Visiting Tybee Island's beach will soon be a little bit easier for folks using wheelchairs and walkers. An $18,000 state grant will buy three lengthy Kevlar mats that will be used to traverse loose sand at the beach's edge, linking the ends of crosswalks with hard sand closer to the water, City Manager Bob Thomson said
- Savannah Morning News, 12-2-05

* It's supposed to be 12-feet deep, but it's not. In at least four places in Georgia, including one in Glynn County, the depth of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is at or below 4 feet
- Brunswick News, 12-2-05

* The number of red grouper recreational fisherman will be able to keep from state waters has been reduced
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-3-05

* Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called offshore drilling "incompatible" with military training and weapons testing in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's shores
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 12-2-05

* Restoration at Navarre Beach should begin by mid- to late-February, with completion of sand dredging by May 31
- Pensacola News Journal, 12-2-05

* Gulf County Commissioners Keep Beach Renourishment Momentum Moving to rebuild the eroding beaches of St. Joseph Peninsula
* After nearly three months of closure due to red tide that caused hardship for seafood workers and the many people who depend on them, a portion of the western edge of Apalachicola Bay opened last week to oyster harvesting
- Port St. Joe Start, 11-30-05

* Georgetown County Council could take up an ordinance in December to ban beach vitex.
- Coastal Observer

* Post-storm access to beaches now easier, Escambia sets up new re-entry procedure
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-30-05

* Apalach oysters making comeback
- Panama City News Hearald, 11-30-05

* Marineland's population could boom
- St. Augustine Record, 11-29-05

* Retiree has hopes for sea wall device
- Daytona News Journal, 11-29-05

* Daufuskie development a slow process
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-28-05

* Developers eye Daufuskie for new market
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-27-05

* October was a terrible month for salt marsh mosquitoes and counts have been high all over the island, according to Bruce Hyers, acting director of the Amelia Island Mosquito Control District
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 11-26-05

* MARINELAND -- With an expected population boom of more than 3,000 percent, this small town on a desolate stretch of State Road A1A is poised to dethrone Palm Coast as the fastest-growing city in Flagler County
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-27-05

* A strong catch in October has shrimpers hopeful that they'll beat back what had been a disappointing shrimp season
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-26-05

* That there has been a big increase in real estate prices at the Beaches is an absolute certainty. How much higher home prices will go is less certain
- Fernandina Beaches Leader, 11-26-05

* A strong catch in October has shrimpers hopeful that they'll beat back what had been a disappointing shrimp season, but undercutting foreign producers and high gas prices are still keeping some boats tied to the docks
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-25-05

* Because of the curve of Georgia’s coast, a hurricane would have a larger storm surge and cause greater damage from flooding than if it hit further north or south because the water has nowhere to go, according to computer models
- Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 11-23-05

* Circuit Judge Michael Traynor pressed St. Johns County's top beach-management official on Wednesday for a timeline for beach access improvements and why certain accesses in the county are slated for improvement earlier than in Ponte Vedra Beach
-  Florida Times Union, 11-24-05

* Barely in time for the holidays, the state today is reopening a portion of Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-24-05

* The Surfrider Foundation sued St. Johns County over access points and parking. The foundation, a non-profit organization based in California, said the county violated the Public Trust Doctrine by not maintaining these as open beach access points for the public
- Florida Times Union, 11-23-05

* After months of negotiations, the Port St. Joe Port Authority and the St. Joe Company have hammered out the terms for a port location north of the old mill site
* Gulf County commissioners spent two-and-a-half hours last Friday hearing the pros and cons of beach renourishment
- Port St. Joe Star, 11-22-05

* State backs off sea wall idea for A1A. Flagler Beach Residents no longer have to fear three miles of concrete sea wall
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-22-05

* Island restoration advocates shift debate. The new argument: Dauphin Island's west end needs to be saved because it protects Mobile from storms
- Mobile Register, Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 11-20-05

* After 22 months of closure and about $150,000 in repairs to its spiral staircase, the Hunting Island lighthouse reopened in February
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-21-05

* Crab pot lines are considered one of the most serious hazards to the mammal in state waters. Playing out the trap's line so that it lies straight along the bottom tends to keep it from snarling underwater and entangling dolphins
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-20-05

* Why a second causeway to St. Simons Island isnot on the horizon
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-19-05

*  City of Fernandina Beach is seeking $1 million in emergency aid to forestall the loss of beach north of Sadler Road
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 11-16,-05

* Volusia on high end of hurricane insurance hike. In a move that will hammer many coastal residents of Volusia County, a state-backed property insurer said Thursday it will raise average rates by more than 15 percent
* Officials consider sea wall to protect A1A in Flagler
-  Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-18-05

* Beach mouse proposal delayed. A redevelopment push on Pensacola Beach gained steam Thursday night, while a plan to facilitate new construction on Perdido Key stalled yet again
- Pensacola News-Journal, 11-18-05

* The public this week can praise, criticize or otherwise chime in about the State Ports Authority's plan to expand its handling capacity by building a $600 million container terminal on the south end of the former Navy base in North Charleston
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-17-05

* New St. Simons Island pier in the works near Gascoigne Bluff The pier is being built as an alternative for anglers who fished off the Sea Island bridge, now closed to the general public
- Brunswick News, 11-16-05

* New bill would bring gas drilling to 20 miles of Florida coast
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 11-16-05

* A group of businesses and local governments in Alabama and Georgia is requesting a hearing on Florida's decision to deny a permit for dredging the Apalachicola River. But the request may have come too late
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-15-05

* The U.S. Congress is expected to approve and President Bush to sign a 2006 appropriations bill that includes $2.25 million for a proposed Fernandina Beach beach restoration project
- Fenandina Beach News Leader, 11-11-05

* Hilton Head likely to keep subsidized flood insurance
- Beaufort Gazette, 11-13-05

* Regulations require that oyster harvesters gather by hand
- Brunswick News, 11-12-05

* Recreational fishermen are challenging a proposal for a one-month ban on grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and permanent limits on the amount people can catch and keep. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is seeking to prohibit recreational fishing for all types of grouper from Feb. 15 to March 15
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-13-05

* The rare right whales are at the heart of a challenge to the permit to build Georgia's largest marina complex at Cumberland Harbour, in St. Mary's
- Savannah Morning News, 11-10-05

* A study begun in December 2004 by the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Savannah showed that inshore bottlenose dolphins along Georgia's coast – especially those near Brunswick – are laden with high levels of chemical pollutants
- Brunswick News, 11-10-05

* The federal government allocated $100,000 to do a preliminary study on beach renourishment of St. Johns County's shoreline.The Army Corps of Engineers will look at all of St. Johns County's oceanfront with the exception of St. Augustine Beach where a renourishment project is already under way
- St. Augustine Record, 11-10-05

* Tempered by the prospect of future fights, offshore drilling opponents cautiously celebrated this week's defeat of a congressional measure that would have brought oil and natural gas rigs closer to Florida's coastline
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-11-05

* Hilton Head Island is not a likely candidate to make a proposed list of Southern coastal communities that should be ineligible for federally subsidized flood insurance, according to geology professor Robert Young "My guess is that Hilton Head wouldn't end up on a preliminary list of the U.S.'s most vulnerable shorelines," Young said
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 11-10-05

* After four months spent devising a beach restoration plan for Cape San Blas, the county Beach Advisory Committee found itself back at the drawing board Monday night, as the County Commission voted 5-0 to reject the committee’s proposed funding mechanism
* Aalachicola Bay Poised to Reopen Soon for Oystering
* What Is Beach Restoration And Why We Are Talking About It In Gulf County
Port St. Joe Star, 11-9-05

* Fish condos growing bigger, thanks to old Cooper bridges
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-9-05

* The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council proposes to ease the rules for one species, the red porgy, and tighten rules for four other species, increasing the minimum legal size and reducing the number that can be caught of vermilion snapper, golden tilefish, black sea bass and snowy grouper
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-9-05

* Most Florida politicians still say they're opposed to offshore drilling, but they are divided on proposed federal legislation that would allow oil and natural gas rigs 125 miles from the state's beaches
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-7-05

* South Carolina shrimp baiting season closes at noon Tuesday, the end of a two-month spree of recreational shrimpers casting for coolers of salty, sweet crustaceans
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-5-05

* After a tense four-year wait, the federal government has weighed in: Beach driving can stay. Volusia County officials learned this week they can keep cars on the beach until 2030 under a new, renewable permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 11-5-05

* Designs for two storm-damaged beach roads, Fort Pickens Road and J. Earle Bowden Way, should be complete in a few weeks, but when the money will come through to pay for repairs is anybody's guess
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-5-05

* Oysters plucked from Apalachicola Bay have long been the highlight of this celebration, but for the first time in about two decades, the raw shellfish scooped into plastic cups and sold for $5 a helping at the Florida Seafood Festival are from Texas, not Florida
- Paanama City News Herald, 11-5-05

* Escambia County commissioners Thursday night scheduled a vote for Nov. 17 on whether to proceed with a controversial agreement with wildlife conservation officials that would protect the endangered Perdido Key beach mouse and allow hundreds of millions of dollars in pent-up development to procee d The agreement calls for a one-time assessment of $100,000 per acre of new development on beach mouse habitat and a recurring annual fee of $201 per residential unit
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-4-05

* On Friday morning near noon, the Cape St. George Island lighthouse, greatly beloved and admired by the Apalachicola Bay community as a beacon for seven generations, passed away due to natural causes
- Port St. Joe Star, 11-2-05

* Plan hatched to restore Cape St. George Lighthouse
- Tallahassee Democrat, 11-3-05

* Local anglers can now catch grouper this month and next after a federal judge ruled this week that the previously announced closure was overly broad
- The Destin Log, 11-2-05

* With Apalachicola Bay having been closed for two months because of red tide, oystering families and Franklin County commissioners on Tuesday voiced suspicion toward the state officials who are keeping the bay closed
-  Tallahassee Democrat, 11-2-05

* The Life Cycle of A Blue Crab in Florida
- Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

* Charter boat captains are struggling to keep their livelihoods afloat after storm-socked red snapper fishing season ended Monday. Many captains reported a 40 percent to 50 percent drop in their business this season
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-1-05

* County considers plans for Broad River pier
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-31-05

* More turtles nest on Volusia beaches
- Daytona Beach News-Journal, 10-31-05

* A 10-foot, 1,000-pound pygmy sperm whale was found dead on Folly Field Beach early Saturday morning, the eighth such whale to wash up on the South Carolina coast this year
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-30-05

* Dune restoration plan fights back against Mother Nature at New Smyrna Beach
* Dolphin feeding continues in Panhandle despite federal ban
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-29-05

* Work is scheduled to begin Monday on a sand berm to protect Navarre Beach, but the wait will be slightly longer for the highly anticipated beach and dune restoration project aimed at rebuilding a coastline ravaged by storms
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-29-05

* Hunting Island State Park manager Ray Stevens has been drafted to guide the state's nine coastal parks after proven success for 15 years in preserving the island's historic lighthouse and fast-eroding beaches
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-28-05

* 2 decisions favor beach driving, one in a five-year-old New Smyrna Beach case; the other in a recent challenge to the conservation poles used to separate cars from sea turtle nesting areas
- Daytona News Journal, 10-28-05

* East Pass needs another dredging
- Destin Log, 10-26-05

* Crews replace Hunting Island sand dunes
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-26-05

* Just when deepening of Brunswick's harbor will resume and how much funding the project will receive remain question marks more than three weeks into the new federal budget year
- Brunswick News, 10-25-05

* Freshwater jellyfish no fish tale. Technically, they're not really jellyfish. They're hydrozoas
- Daytona Beach News, 10-25-05

* Freshwater Jellyfish by Dr. Terry Peard

* Nearly all the land left to develop on Perdido Key is subject to a proposal to preserve the barrier island's endangered beach mouse
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-25-05

* Pollution not cause of red tide in in much of the Panhandle and Big Bend Tallahassee Democrat, 10-23-05

* After having its tilt corrected three years ago, the 153-year-old lighthouse on Little St. George Island was found toppled in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-22-05

* Cape St. George Lighthouse Collapses Into The Gulf
- Forgotten Coastline, 10-21-05

* Florida denies dredge permit for Apalachiacola River
- Port St. Joe Star, 10-20-05

* The Charleston Nearshore Reef has grown by 7,500 tons since the demolition of the two old Cooper River bridges began in August.The reef, located roughly two miles past the jetties, has received three barge-loads of concrete
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-19-05

* As the pinch for oil and natural gas supply intensifies, energy companies are beginning a push to seek fuels believed to be off the coast of South Carolina
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-19-05

* The government has put a stop to fishing for red grouper in the Gulf of Mexico for the remainder of 2005 because the year's quota of 10.1 million pounds has already been caught. That means restaurants will have to start importing their grouper, probably from Mexico
* Volusia County fights suit to remove conservation poles that block off Volusia's dune area -- where sea turtles frequently nest -- from vehicles
- Daytona News Journal, 10-18-05

* National park may seek Eglin land. Okaloosa Island could become the prize in a tug-ofwar between the Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior if Eglin Air Force Base ever wants to sell or trade its land
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 10-17-05

* Grouper quotas spur outrage. Proposal may push out small fish operations
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-17-05

* Whale monitoring program seeks beach-dwellers to keep watch along Lowcountry coast
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-16-05

* Port Royal visitors and residents who kayak on local waterways soon could have a formalized paddling path of their own on the Beaufort River
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-15-05

* Jacksonville Beach may ease lot coverage limits. A proposed land use change would allow many property owners to build on more of their land
- Beaches Leader, 10-14-05

* Divers carefully probed the massive chunk of steel at the bottom of Town Creek on Thursday, searching for explosives that might not have detonated in Tuesday's dramatic demolition of the Silas N. Pearman Bridge
- Chalreston Post and Courier, 10-14-05

* Round House Design Could Reduce Hurricane Damage
- Golden Isles Weekend Online, October 2004

* New waves of aggressive salt marsh mosquitoes are swarming beach and coastal residents. They are big, strong and nasty. And they have a vicious bite
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-14-05

* The Ocean Course, the site of an upcoming major professional golf championship, is under siege from its briny namesake and needs a big shot of sand if its world-famous closing hole is to be saved
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-13-05

* Sea Turtle Patrol asks public's help on hatchlings hit by storm wash. Storm activity in the Atlantic ocean has caused many sea turtle hatchlings to wash back on shore
- Beaches Leader, 10-12-05

* A group of residents is suing the city over how it handled the rezoning of several newly annexed properties along Folly Road. The lawsuit seeks to put a halt to any construction there until the case is cleared up
- Charleston Post and Courier, 11-12-05

* A new high-rise condominium-hotel by Gulf Breeze-based Innisfree Hotels is planned for Pensacola Beach, with a scheduled 2007 opening
- Pensacola News Journal, 11-12-05

* Rebounding from a disappointing 2004, Hilton Head Island's sea turtle nesting season came to an abrupt end last week, as higher than normal tides caused by Tropical Storm Tammy swept the final four nests out to sea
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-11-05

* Fernandina Beach homeowners fight uphill battle for costly beach renourishment
- Florida Times Union, 10-11-05

* The oyster industry in South Carolina is a shell of its former self, but a few entrepreneurs are trying to keep local oystering afloat, with strategies such as marketing oysters through the Internet and creating new Lowcountry oysters that look better on dinner plates See localoysters.com
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-10-05

* Marshes survive die-back; slow recovery is under way .While a Georgia wide marsh die-back had biologists and other researchers panicked at one point, many are breathing a bit easier now
- Brunswick News, 10-8-05

* Solution to A1A erosion elusive. So far, the state Department of Transportation's answer has been to dump coquina or granite rock to reinforce the weak sections of the dune --a stopgap measure that costs about $1 million each time a hurricane or nor'easter blows up the coast
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-9-05

* Tropical Storm Tammy and a stationary low pressure front dumped 6.74 inches of rain in southern Beaufort County this week, all but eliminating the area's annual rainfall deficit in one 48-hour period
- Beaufort Gazette, 10-8-05

* Two months after 700,000 cubic yards of sand were pumped onshore to replenish miles of beach from Hanna park in Atlantic Beach to the St. John's County line, Beaches officials are working to make sure the sand stays put
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 10-8-05

* Federal and county officials with beach oversight are hoping for a lull in storm activity that will allow them to restore public beaches. They're also aiming to rebuild and strengthen Gulf Islands' shattered roads that have cut off visitors from some of the area's most popular and pristine beaches
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-8-05

* Boat traffic is slow behind the Isle of Palms these days, but at least it's not stuck.And maybe it won't be for a while.A $2 million project to dredge the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway between Georgetown and Charleston Harbor
- Chaleston Post and Courier, 10-7-05

* A nest of loggerhead sea turtles eggs were stolen from St. Augustine Beach, officials said Thursday
- St. Augustine Record, 10-7-05

* Old St. Joseph''s Point Lighthouse Stood Only Eight Years
- Port St. Joe Star, 9-29-05

* Lifeguards and Jacksonville Beach officials are working to develop a pilot program to help defuse surfers and fishermen jockeying for position at the fishing pier
- Fernandina Beaches Leader, 10-5-05

* Beach users want say on Florida Coastal High Hazard Study Committee
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-6-05

* Colleton County will ask the state Attorney General's Office whether it can legally create a district that would tax Edisto Beach at a lower rate than the rest of the county
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-5-05

* The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council last week recommended tighter catch limits for vermilion snapper
- Charleston Post and Courier, 10-4-05

* Boat owners on Hilton Head Island could have to pay up to 10 times more for permits to store their vessels on the beach under new regulations the town is considering. Now, the town is considering greatly increasing its fee for an annual permit from $10 to $120
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-40-2005

* A red tide outbreak that began last month in southwest Florida has made its way completely across the state's Gulf Coast to the western end of the Panhandle
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 10-4-05

* A red tide algae bloom plagued Pensacola Area beaches for the third straight day Monday, spreading mild misery to beachgoers, killing fish and prompting health warnings from state and local official
-  Pensacola News Journal, 10-4-05

* The chairman of a key House committee announced Monday that he was withdrawing a bill that would have allowed natural-gas exploration close to Florida's beaches
- Tallahassee Democrat, 10-4-05

* Red tide bloom rolls in at Pensacola Beach. Visitors withstand respiratory irritation to soak up sun
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-3-05

* Few marsh islands eligible for bridges. BEAUFORT -- New standards regulating bridge construction to the state's marsh islands will leave 68 islands within Beaufort County open to possible development
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 10-1-05

* Storm damage elsewhere raises value of Alabama oysters
- Mobile Register, 9-30-05

* Nearly three months after Hurricane Dennis wrought havoc on Santa Rosa Island, storm debris along the streets of Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach is finally disappearing
- Pensacola News Journal, 10-1-05

* The southbound Ashley River drawbridge got stuck partially upright Thursday morning after opening to let a boat pass
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-30-05

* Shrimp rules to change. Georgia DNR panel will vote on 18 issues
-  Brunswick News, 9-29-05

* With the announcement that a developer is the stalking horse bidder on the Durango-Georgia paper mill, the question arises as to what kind of clean-up will be required in order to make that land safe for residential development
- Tribune and Georgia, 9-29-05

* Mayport Naval Station will receive $500,000 for wharf upgrades needed to make Mayport eligible to homeport a nuclear carrier
- Pente Vedrea Beaches Leader, 9-30-05

* NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Beach driving on most of New Smyrna Beach remains questionable for the weekend, but north of Ponce de Leon Inlet is good to go, beach officials said Thursday
- Daytona Beach News Journa, 9-30-05

* With picks, shovels and spades in tow, this group of invasive-plant eradicators quickly scanned the shoreline searching for brightly colored flags marking the location of this landscape’s greatest threat: beach vitex
- Coastal Observer

* Tybee Island under swimming advisory. Routine water quality tests from samples taken Tuesday show the beach water in this area contains a high level of enterococci bacteria
- Savanah Morning News, 9-28-05

* Ignoring Florida's long-standing opposition to offshore drilling, a key U.S. House panel approved legislation Wednesday that could open both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts to oil and natural-gas exploration and production
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-29-05

* New construction in Escambia County flood zones will have to be 3 feet higher, if a planned ordinance change takes effect. Santa Rosa County already has passed such a requirement
* The Port of Pensacola is enjoying a virtual traffic jam at its five deepwater berths as it takes up some of the slack for Gulf of Mexico ports damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-27-05

* 68 island could get bridges. New standards regulating the construction of bridges to the state's marsh islands will leave 68 islands within Beaufort County open to possible development
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-26-05

* Building a tall house, one so tall that Folly Beach City Council might have to decide whether it's legal
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-25-05

* Fernandina Beach Commissioners Tuesday voted down two requests that would have led to more than 500 housing units near Amelia Island Parkway, delaying developers' progress until 2006
-  Fernandina Beach News Leader, 9-24-05

* New limits proposed on snapper, grouper
- Charleston Post and courier, 9-24-05

* The Volusia Beach Patrol warns people to be wary of rip currents when wading into the ocean this weekend
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-24-05

* Since dead fish first began washing onto area beaches over two weeks ago, the latest red tide has long overstayed its welcome. The stench overwhelmed the scenic drive along U.S. 98 through Mexico Beach for a solid week
* Cape San Blas Lighthouse: Erosion and Sunken Treasure
- Port St. Joe Star, 9-22-05

* Flagler researches low-cost method to stop beach erosion
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-23-05

* Navarre Beach homeowners are expressing frustration at the slow pace of dune restoration as once again waves generated by a storm hundreds of miles away weaken an already vulnerable beach
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-23-05

* Development forces may soon change the face of the historic waterfront fishing village at Mayport, with condos and Key West-style homes replacing shrimp boats and seafood markets
- Beaches Leader, 9-21-05

* ORMOND BEACH -- In 10 years on Volusia County's beaches, Nick Sharer had never seen a summer quite like this -- so good for surfing, so bad for beach driving About three-fourths of Volusia County Concessionaires Association members reported drops in sales of 50 percent or more
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-21-04

* Area surf on safety streak: No one has drowned on Pensacola Beach in 2 years
- Pensacola News Journal, 9-21-05

* Red tide in Apalachicola Bay has, with a few exceptions, halted the supply of oysters to local consumers, said David Heil, bureau chief of the Bureau of Aquaculture Environmental Services
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-21-05

* Jasper maintains that it feels no economic impact from Charleston ports and wants a piece of the maritime ports' pie
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-19-05

*  A magnum-force hurricane hitting Northeast Florida and southeast Georgia would shove so much ocean water onto land that it would look like the Atlantic Ocean tipped to one side and spilled across the region
- Florida Times Union, 9-18-05

* The S.C. State Ports Authority controls the fourth-largest waterborne shipping network in the country through marine terminals in Charleston, Georgetown and Port Royal
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-17-05

* On Thursday, the Pier Rats gathered at the end of the new 1,300-foot pier to commemorate the anniversary and share fish tales of glory days spent at Bones Pier
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 9-17-05

* With 47 miles of beach and a budget that's stretched thin, Volusia County's Beach Patrol division can't afford to have a lifeguard on every inch of sand, officials said Friday in the aftermath of the county's first drowning this year.
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-17-05

* St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge awash in debris from Hurricane Dennis
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-17-05

* A Florida red tide bloom continues in northwest Florida this week and extends in a patchy distribution from Bay to Levy counties
-  Florida Marine Research Institute, 9-16-05

* Hurricane Ophelia took a bite out of South Carolina's beaches, particularly at Wild Dunes on the Isle of Palms and the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island.Still, the overall damage could have been much worse
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-15-05

* Most of the Lowcountry's isolated salt marsh islands will likely stay that way for a long time. A committee wrangling over bridge access to 2,400 islands in the South Carolina tidal plain has decided that nine out of ten of them should be admired from afar -- not from a car
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-14-05

* Fernandina Beach Commission-ers reversed a previous decision and approved a conditional use permit for a 36-unit hotel at Main Beach
- Fernandina News Leader, 9-10-05

* High surf churned up by the passing of storm Ophelia continued to pound the shoreline Monday in Volusia and Flagler counties, sending workers scrambling to stave off more erosion in some places
- Daytona Beach News Journal, 9-13-05

* Pretty soon, visitors will be able to stroll on a fishing pier on both sides of Folly Island. Capping a push to expand water access, town leaders hope to have a fishing pier built and ready to use by the New Year's holiday. This one will lead from the new Folly River Park near the Center Street bridge across a wide area of marsh and overlook a portion of the river
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-11-05

* FLAGLER BEACH -- Florida Department of Transportation workers succeeded in saving parts of State Road A1A from washing out due to Tropical Storm Ophelia, but are losing the fight against pounding waves in other parts of the shoreline
- St. Augustine Record, 9-10-05

* Baiting season helps recreational shrimpers
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-10-05

* Summer Haven's new berm seriously eroded by Ophelia
* Massive erosion hits Flagler Beach
- St. Augustine Record, 9-9-05

* It's shrimp baiting time once again in South Carolina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-9-05

* Growing Hurricane Ophelia already has sapped up to 5 feet of sand from fast-eroding Hunting Island State Park and likely will continue to damage Lowcountry beaches as it meanders southeast of the Carolinas
- Beaufort Gazette, 9-9-05

* Some of the sand recently dredged up onto Anastasia Island beaches as part of a $14 million project washed away with the tide Wednesday
- St. Augustine Record, 9-8-05

* State road workers scrambled Thursday to replace the sand and stone revetment that Hurricane Ophelia seemed determined to wash away perilously close to the State Road A1A roadbed, but decided to close a block of the road overnight for the safety of motorists
- Daytona News Journal, 9-9-05

* Today in DeLand, the Volusia County Council will review changes to the county's beach management plan, some of them designed to bring in more money for off-beach parking, including a proposal to start charging $3 per day to park at county beachfront parks like SunSplash
- Daytona News Journal, 9-8-05

* Buildings could be capped at 60 feet -- roughly six stories -- along the Intracoastal Waterway if a new plan proposed in the Jacksonville City Council is approved
- Florida Times Union, 9-7-05

* We have posted pictures of most of our rentals that sustained damage. Of the 90 houses we managed before the storm, 37 are gone......... gone as in GONE
- Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, 9-3-05

* Coast Guard: Deploying cutter Oak. Twenty-one "Aids to Navigation" team members from bases in four Southeastern states, including the Charleston base, to repair channel markers and reopen ports to get relief supplies
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-6-05

* Three days after storm surge ripped away city blocks of waterfront homes on Dauphin Island and flooded all but a few of Bayou La Batre's homes and businesses, both towns struggled to return basic services to their residents Thursday
- Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 9-2-05

* The 60-day shrimp baiting season opens Friday in South Carolina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-4-05

* The juvenile shrimp in the nets look like flecks of white gold. The costly fuel being burned to catch them might as well be liquid gold. Hurricane Katrina and the virtual shutdown of shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico might be a lethal shot to the area
- Charleston Post and Courier, 9-3-05

* A citizens committee considering rules for access to marsh islands in the state is suggesting that 68 of the smaller islands be allowed to have single-lane bridges that cars can cross
-Charleston Post and couirier, 9-1-05

* Coastal cities bet against nature
* Conditions should be ripe for still another weekend of fun surf. Weakened Tropical Depression Lee should not pose a danger, but with a little luck we could continue to get a fun swell from its churning about well offshore
-Daytona News Journal, 9-2-05

* Jekyll Island Foundation raising funds for Georgia Sea Turtle Center
- Brunswick News, 8-31-05

* As Pensacola Beach reopened to the public at noon Wednesday, people were pleased to see Hurricane Katrina had not caused major damage to businesses
-  Pensacola News Journal, 9-1-05

* Katrina stalls Florida beach restoration
* Oyster industry monitoring red tide in Apalachicola Bay
- Tallahassee Democrat, 9-1-05

* Hilton Head delays action on abandoned boats. The new regulations passed by the Town Council allow the town to remove the boats after giving owners 30 days notice. But details of the regulations still need to be hammered out
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-31-05

* A state committee studying the problem of saltwater intrusion in a coastal aquifer held a three-day meeting on Jekyll Island last week
- Brunswick News, 8-30-05

* Sailors drawn to St. Augustine for the historic bay front may be latching their boats to city-owned moorings in years to come. The City Commission wants to explore using a field of floating devices to help control water troubled by derelict boats and waste disposal
- Florida Times Union, 8-31-05

* A Jacksonville developer wants to build 846 new homes on the largest undeveloped property in St. Augustine Shores
- St. Augustine Record, 8-30-05

* Beachfront property owners have long claimed that Volusia County's turquoise conservation poles are planted illicitly on their dunes -- and so, by extension, are the cars parked just east of them. Now, in a move that could threaten beach driving, the state seems to be taking the pole-haters seriously
- Daytona News Journal, 8-30-05

* Tens of thousands of dead fish Tuesday were strewn along some beaches in Franklin County, further raising concerns about red tide in the area
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-31-05

* State utility Santee Cooper on Monday started a nine-month project to add a power line between the mainland and Hilton Head Island that will increase power capacity and reliability -- without disturbing ospreys that nest in existing pylons
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online 8-30-05

* Edisto Beach homeowners warily watch as values rise
* Folly Beach surfers swim with sharks
-  Charleston Post and courier, 8-29-05

* Green turtles nest in record numbers at Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge near Melbourne
- Daytona News Journal, 8-28-05

* Higher fuel costs are compounding problems from increased fishery regulations on vermilion snapper, grouper and other Gulf fish
- Pensacola News Journal, 8-28-05

* Turtle volunteer on ATV ticketed at Flagler beach. All-terrain vehicles were among those outlawed from the beach by the County Commission last year
- Daytona News Journal, 8-27-05

* Numerous fish kills totaling thousands of fish or more have been reported across a span of at least 75 miles between Port St. Joe and Taylor County this week, state researchers said Friday
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-27-05

* Numerous fish kills have been reported this week from northwest Florida in and around St. Joe Bay in Gulf County and from offshore areas between Gulf and Taylor counties
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 8-26-05

* A few days after fishermen at Bohicket Marina and Yacht Club caught and killed a 300-pound shark off the docks, Graack and his divers had to catch up on their work. Unfortunately, their job is cleaning the bottom of yachts at the marina
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-25-05

* Volusia County's plans to build a new lifeguard station at SunSplash Park were ambushed Thursday night at the city's Planning Board meeting
- Daytona News Journal, 8-26-05

* Scallop Festival coming to Port St. Joe September 3-4
- Port St. Joe Star, 8-25-05

* The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program made history this week by hand-placing nearly 28,000 pounds of fossilized oyster shells into Little Sarasota Bay to help restore the oyster population near both Turtle and White beaches
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-26-05

* On Wednesday, a citizens committee that came together to write new regulations for access to the 2,400 isolated islands in the South Carolina tidal plain tentatively agreed to more restrictive lengths for bridges over public marshes
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-25-05

* Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet relaxed the rules Tuesday for building or expanding private marinas
- Daytone News Journal, 8-24-05

* The Jacksonville Beach Pier's sandbars create some of the best waves in North Florida, making the most of the state's typically small surf
- Florida Times Union 8-23-05

* St. Johns aiming to open doors to beach. Plan to improve oceanfront access includes $450,000 in wooden walkways
- Florida Times Union, 8-22-05

* St. Augustine Beach City Commission wants to explore the possibility of changing the configuration of St. Augustine Inlet so ocean currents would naturally deposit more sand on their beaches
- St. Augustine Record, 8-21-05

* Islands in Lowcountry marshes face fierce development pressure
* A Sea Grant researcher and a South Carolina State Department of Natural Resources biologist are developing a computer modeling program to predict numbers and movements of blue crabs, similar to the models that predict hurricane tracks
* Welcome to the SC Blue Crab Project
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-21-05

* Amid talk of a “pause for planning,” at least one developer is scaling back blueprints for downtown Panama City
- Panama City News Herald, 8-21-05

* Hunting Island State Park had its most successful loggerhead turtle nesting season in 10 years with expectations that numbers will continue to climb after planned nourishment buries stumps and pipes that may have deterred turtles in the past
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-20-05

* Daytona Beach's dreams of reinventing its oceanfront Boardwalk can move forward after a judge Friday upheld efforts to force the sale of three properties for a private development
* An increase in thefts from Ormond Beach as far south as Wilbur-by-the-Sea has prompted the Volusia County Beach Patrol to warn beachgoers to be on the alert
- Daytona News Journal, 8-20-05

* Posey's Oyster Bar has been a cornerstone of the business community for about seven decades. Now that it's at least temporarily closed, morale and the economy are hurting, as the town of 300 people struggles to regain some sense of normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Dennis, which flooded the Wakulla County coast in early July
- Tallahassee Democrat, 8-20-05

* Poachers hit seven loggerhead sea turtle nests on a Hilton Head Island beach, the worst such incident in recent years
- Beaufort Gazette, 8-19-05

* Sand could be flowing onto storm-battered New Smyrna-area beaches in about a month. The Volusia County Council unanimously approved Thursday a $14 million dune restoration project for five miles of badly eroded southern beaches
- Daytona News Journal, 8-19-05

* A divided South Carolina State Ports Authority board said Tuesday it would not become involved in a privately run port project, effectively killing the concept for a joint project with Jasper County
- Island Packet Online, 8-18-05

* Folly Beach renourishment has dropped tons of sand on the surfers' sweet spot, dampening the long waves that used to unravel along the shore like a worn-out beach towel
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-16-05

* Washed-out Old A1A leads to a moratorium on building in a waterfront area on Summer Haven
-Florida Times Union, 8-16-05

* Repairs to 14 miles of storm-damaged roads in two sections of the Gulf Islands National Seashore have cost $35.5 million since 1995, and officials estimate it will take another $27.3 million to get them open again after a double battering in July
- Daytona News Journal, 8-16-05

*  Swimmers were  warned to stay out of the water at portions of Amelia Island's beaches this week, after county and city lifeguards spotted sharks feeding near the shore
* Some of the best summer sea trout action this weekend should come from the southern end of Amelia Island while fishing either from the surf or boat
Fernandina News Leader, 8-13-05

* St. Johns County Beach Services this year said Thursday that it plans improvements to 32 undeveloped footpaths to the beach and will create another 30 that -- at present -- exist only as easements
- St. Augustine Record, 8-12-05

* Flounder gigging will continue in Pawleys Creek with no interference from the town of Pawleys Island
- Coastal Observer

* Coastal Conservation League representatives discuss the impact new marshlands bridges to have on water quality and public access
- Beaufort Gazette, 8-11-05

* A crew from the maritime division of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina suspect they are on the scent of the Capitana, the lead ship in a Spanish expedition that struck an oysterbar in 1526 and sank near the entrance to Winyah Bay
- Coast News

* Work to replenish area beaches with over 700,000 cubic yards of sand was completed in Atlantic Beach Sunday, marking the first successful local beach renourishment effort in 10 years
- Ponta Vedra Beaches Leader, 8-12-05

* Saltwater continues to move into the underground source that supplies Hilton Head Island with much of its drinking water, state officials say
- Brunswick News, 6-3-05

* State ignores grouper closure, it looks like local anglers will be able to fish for grouper this winter after all
- Destin Log, 6-3-05

* Instead of closing public beaches when bacteria levels in water become high, states ought to find out what's causing the spikes, an environmental advocate says
- Brunswick News, 8-1-05

*  beating Navarre Beach took from Hurricane Dennis was comparable to those inflicted by hurricanes Ivan and Opal, making renourishment a top priority for the state and Santa Rosa County
* Gulf Breeze residents have until Aug. 15 to move debris created from last month's Hurricane Dennis to city rights of way for removal
- Pensacola News Journal, 8-2-05

* The 125 miles or so between Cape San Blas and Hurricane Dennis’ eyewall wasn’t far enough. “We got devastated out here on the gulf side in terms of erosion. I think we’re probably one of the (Panhandle’s) highest erosion rates,” said Charlie Weston, who is a resident of Cape San Blas, a primarily residential peninsula in Gulf County
- Northwest Florida Daily News,  8-2-05

* Folly outlaws fast-growing vitex
- Charleston Post and Courier, 8-1-05

* Hilton Head Island will wait to see results of a study that its coastal consultant is conducting before moving forward with Mayor Tom Peeples' much-debated proposal to oversee some island dredging projects
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 8-1-05

* Bulk of snapper sent north. A cruel case of economics, ecology and meteorology is keeping snapper scarce in local restaurants
- Pensacola News Journal, 8-1-05

* Okaloosa Island’s beach is disappearing. And for the second time in 10 months, part of the road that runs across it has washed away. It has turned into a long summer here, and Hurricane Dennis is to blame
- Northwest Florida Daily News, 8-1-05

* Rip currents are the country's leading cause of ocean drownings and rescues. While no one has drowned on Volusia County's beaches in a rip current this year, lifeguards have been swamped with rescues already twice as many as previous years and many blame last year's hurricanes that rearranged the sand underwater
- Pensacola News Journal, 7-31-05

* Apalachicola Bay changing from oysters to condos
- Tallahasse Democrat, 7-31-05

* Flounder gigging near Pawley's Island
- Coastal Observer

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* The delicate matter of relocating turtle eggs. Folly Beach renourishment poses risk to fragile loggerhead nests
- Charleston Post and Courier, 7-30-05

* South Carolina shrimp season starts off rough
- Beaufort Gazette, 7-30-05

* Beachgoers will soon see the first stages of a $1.4 million project to dredge sand from the Ponce de Leon Inlet channel for placement on the beach north of the Beach Street ramp in Ponce Inlet
* Safety director Bob West thinks it's no coincidence his Pensacola Beach lifeguards are making nearly twice as many rescues, mostly due to rip currents, since Hurricane Ivan rearranged the Florida Panhandle's underwater topography last year
- Daytona News Journal, 7-30-05

* Sandbar dangers, just offshore of St. Simons and Jekyll islands, they look inviting, but as tides and currents change, they can become deadly
- Brunswick News, 7-27-05

* Volusia County lifeguards pulled more than 100 bathers from rip currents Tuesday and say a dramatic increase in rescues may be due to changes in the ocean floor caused by last year's hurricanes
- Daytona News Journal, 7-27-05

* Salt water is oozing through the previously pure aquifer not only laterally from Hilton Head Island, where a highly documented problem has been monitored for years, but also from the top down
- Savannah Morning News, 7-26-05

* New perils: 607 rescues at Pensacola Beach; rip currents, deep drop-offs create danger
- Pensacola News Journal, 7-27-05

* The rising tide prompted the closing of many beaches in St. Johns County this morning
-St. Augustine Record, 7-25-05

* Invaded by hard-to-pack sand, most Ormond Beach approaches, particularly those from Cardinal Drive north, have been open to vehicles hardly at all this year. With precious little public off-beach parking nearby, lots of folks have headed to points further south like Daytona Beach. Concessionaires, beachside business owners and local residents are feeling the pinch, and officials are scrambling to put together solutions long-term and short
- Daytona News Journal, 7-26-05

* Hurricane Dennis did his dirtiest work in the Cape San Blas and Indian Pass areas, but it wasn’t until almost five days after his passing that cleanup crews appeared in full force in these areas
*  assistance is on the way for Port St. Joe residents impacted last week by Hurricane Dennis
- Port St. Joe Star, 7-21-05

* Storm victims face sticker shock, rebuilding to current codes costly
- Tallahassee Democrat 7-26-05

* Pensacola Beach reopened to the general public on Sunday to smaller-than-usual crowds. And while crowds were light, some revelers and business owners were just pleased that the beach was open
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-25-05

* The first turtle hatchlings of the season on Hilton Head Island emerged Wednesday from their nest on a Palmetto Dunes beach. But many headed straight for the dunes to an almost certain death
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-23-05

* Daufuskie Island won't be getting a lock-harbor marina or the restaurants, grocery store and other businesses proposed for development around it any time soon
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-23-05

* For denizens of the Intracoastal, the brackish water symbolizes not only the Florida lifestyle, but a wa`y of life in and of itself
-Florida Times Union, 7-23-05

* Effective Aug. 9, the National Marine Fisheries Service will implement a temporary emergency measure that will reduce the daily bag limit of grouper from five per person per day to three. The measure further shuts down all grouper fishing in federal waters from Nov. 1 to Dec. 3
* Pensacola Beach will be open for business to the public again July 24 for the first time since Hurricane Dennis roared ashore July 10
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-23-05

* Posey's Oyster Bar at St. Marks managed to open for business at 5 p.m. Friday after almost two weeks of shoveling mud, scooping water and tossing out soggy stuff damaged by Hurricane Dennis
* Business couldn't be better for the salvage companies rescuing boats flung aside by Hurricane Dennis
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-23-05

* Danger swirls on Sullivan's: Swamping waves, rip currents, shifting sands among hazards
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-21-05

* $1 billion community planned on 110 acres at Liberty Point in Brunswick on the southeast tip of the city that would feature residences, hotels, clubs, retail shops, a public marina and a boardwalk
-Brunswick News, 7-21-05

* A Daufuskie Island resort may move a centuries-old cemetery in an effort to keep graves from washing into Mungen Creek
-Brunswick News, 7-20-05

* Beach renourishment is scheduled to begin in Atlantic Beach Sunday at 12th Street, according to city Public Works Director Rick Carper
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 7-15-05

* For the first time since last year's hurricanes, motorists can drive on the beach from Ponce de Leon Inlet's south jetty to the 27th Avenue beach ramp
* Hurricane Dennis and two tropical storms have left Escambia County's bays, creeks, lakes and bayous looking like giant vats of café au lait -- milky and full-bodied
-Daytona News Journal, 7-19-05

* U.S. Highway 98 between Carrabelle and Eastpoint won't be detour-free for weekend travelers, but it should be open by this time next week
-Florida Times Union, 7-19-05

* Penn Center's first Gullah Studies Institute history program kicked off Sunday and will continue through July 30 with a number of classes on the Gullah culture
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-18-05

* The Pensacola Bay Area and the rest of the Florida Panhandle coast is under renewed scientific scrutiny this week as coastal researchers look at Hurricane Dennis' impact
* The dog beach at Pensacola's Bayview Park likely will stay as is for now
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-18-05

* In its first year, the South Carolina program to put private communities in charge of alligator removal has reduced the number of calls state wildlife officials are getting. But some community officials continue to say its unfair to place the cost of the removal on the community
* Fripp Island living: Chances are, you can't afford it
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-17-05

* Being united under the same ownership, Georgia's seaports in Brunswick and Savannah are better able to compete against ports in other states because they aren't competing against each other
-Brunswick News, 7-16-05

* If you have been stung by a jellyfish, thoroughly wash the area without rubbing it. Washing with seawater is preferable to fresh water. Ice may be used to help control the pain. Further treatment for stings uses a 50/50 mixture of vinegar or ammonia and water to neutralize the toxin . . .
-Fernandina News Leader, 7-16-05

* Florida is giving hunters a gator-hunting primer
-Florida Times Union, 7-17-05

* As high-rise condos replace low-key homes, folks at Port Orange's Seabird Island are losing paradise
-Daytona News Journal, 7-17-05

* The new eight-lane, cable-stayed Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge across the Cooper River will open for traffic this afternoon, a full year ahead of schedule
* A month after seabirds began washing up dead or dying along Southeast beaches, they are still coming and their deaths are still a mystery
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-16-05

* An occasional beach ramp has been shut down in the past, but this season closing St. Johns County beaches to vehicle access may become necessary, officials said
-St. Augustine Record, 7-16-05

* St. George bridge reopens to visitors
Tallahassee Democrat, 7-16-05

* The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has put together a panel of developers and environmentalists to come up with new guidelines for public access to marsh islands after the state Supreme Court threw out the old regulations earlier this year
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-14-05

* The Jacksonville Port Authority is on the verge of signing a deal with an Asian shipping line that will bring a mammoth new facility to Dames Point
-Florida Times Union, 7-15-05

* Help is on the way to Wakulla, Franklin and four other coastal counties after an announcement Thursday by Gov. Jeb Bush that the counties have been declared federal disaster areas
* The famed Apalachicola Bay oyster may not be gone from dinner plates as long as first feared, state scientists said Thursday after inspecting oyster beds and taking water samples
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-15-05

* 2005 Kingfish Tournament: Schedule of Events
-Florida Times Union, 7-14-05

* Gulf County Damage Primarily to Cape and Pass, Franklin County Fares Much Worse. On Cape San Blas, 72 homes were reported as having major damage, with another 202 suffering only minor damage
* St. George Island Flooding Impacts Tourist Season
-Port St. Joe Star, 7-13-05

* Hurricane Dennis Descends
-Apalachicola Times, 7-14-05

* Hurricane Dennis did a number on Alligator Point, destroying houses, ripping up a quarter-mile of road and pouring a storm surge of 10 to 12 feet across the resort peninsula 35 miles southwest of Tallahassee
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-13-05

* It's been seven years since the state of Georgia began requiring people fishing in saltwater to purchase the same license their freshwater counterparts had been buying for decades
-Brunswick News, 7-12-05

* St. Marks missed the eye, but rode storm surge
-Florida Times Union, 7-12-05

* County-by-county reports of the effects of Dennis
-St. Augustine Record, 7-12-05

* The big surprise of Hurricane Dennis wasn't its wind power but the incredible 10-foot tidal surge it spawned, say locals in St. Marks and Shell Point
*Hurricane Dennis ripped apart stretches of U.S. Highway 98 in coastal Franklin County, making the main road from Tallahassee to St. George Island impassable
* State meteorologist Ben Nelson said forecasters had predicted an 8-foot storm surge in the Big Bend area. But he said the storm brought unusually heavy flooding (from a 10- to 12-foot storm surge) to Wakulla County communities such as Shell Point and St. Marks because of three factors: the hurricane's southeast-to-northwest trajectory, the southeast-facing orientation of the Wakulla County coast and the shallowness of Apalachee Bay
* Hurricane Dennis shut down the oyster business in coastal Franklin County, reducing several oyster houses to rubble and heavily damaging others
Tallahassee Democrat, 7-12-05

* Flagler County has rebuffed a second demand by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lift its ban on the Volusia-Flagler Turtle Patrol's use of all-terrain vehicles to monitor sea turtle nests
-Daytona News Journal, 7-11-05

* Ivan's victims relieved Dennis wasn't worse
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-11-05

* The University of Georgia's Marine Extension Service is a friend to fish-eaters everywhere, and it has the videotape to prove it
-Brunswick News, 7-9-05

* Atlantic Beach Commissioner Rick Beaver wants to give voters an opportunity in October to amend the city's charter, limiting the height of all structures in the city to 35 feet
Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 7-8-05

* Looking for turtles? Sign up for beach tour - list of turtle tours
-Daytona News Journal, 7-10-05

* Dangerous Category 4 Dennis spinning toward Gulf Coast
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-10-05

* Roughly 40,000 people are expected to converge on the new Cooper River bridge this weekend to mark the opening to pedestrians of the state's largest and most costly bridge. The public will have the chance to walk on the new three-mile-long structure
* FOLLY BEACH--City Council gave initial approval Thursday to annex 24 residential properties
-Charlestono Post and Courier, 7-8-05

* The water along Hilton Head Island's beaches this summer is healthy and safe for swimmers, just as it's been for the past several years, say officials from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control
-Beaufort Gazette, 7-8-05

* FORT WALTON BEACH - Beachfront homeowners against a planned beach nourishment project in Destin and South Walton County aren't giving up their fight despite a recent defeat in an administrative hearing. Any beach added during the proposed beach nourishment project would be deemed public, not private
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-6-05

* Brunswick is no longer the most populous city in Southeast Georgia. That distinction among five cities in Glynn, Camden, and McIntosh counties now goes to St. Marys in Camden County, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates show
-Brunswick News, 7-6-05

* ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- Lifeguards closed part of the beach between A Street and Ocean Trace Road for 15 minutes Tuesday afternoon after someone spotted a shark swimming near shore
-St. Auguatine Record, 7-6-05

* Santa Rosa County officials met Wednesday with companies interested in rebuilding an emergency berm flattened by Hurricane Ivan and leaving Navarre Beach vulnerable to even slight storm surges
-Pensacola News Journal, 7-7-05

* Oceanfront property owners in Ponte Vedra whose landscaping blocks a county beach access will be given several months to remove the obstruction under a program OK'd Tuesday by St. Johns County commissioners
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 7-1-05

* A small provision buried in the Senate's recently passed energy bill calls for a national inventory of offshore energy resources, prompting concern that drilling for oil and natural gas off South Carolina's pristine Atlantic coastal waters could be a step closer
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-5-05

* DHEC workers take water samples from Folly and beaches up and down the coast twice a month from May 15 through Oct. 15 and issue warning advisories for high levels of bacteria that can make swimmers ill
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-3-05

* Every Saturday during the summertime, thousands of travelers try to get to their vacation rentals on Hilton Head Island, turning U.S. 278 into a virtual parking lot frequently stretching 10 miles or more
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-3-05

* In today's market, a 100-front-foot lot on Fort Morgan is selling for $1.7 million, while the lots directly behind that, called second-tier lots, are going for $650,000. Those second-tier lots were selling for $100,000 three years ago, according to Powell
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 7-3-05

* PANAMA CITY BEACH Thirteen hundred bucks for a view of bulldozers and the latrine? No thanks. Dozens of vacationers expected sun and sand during their holiday in Bay County this weekend but were met with rows of pipes and the roar of heavy-duty equipment, as work crews continued a longrunning dredging project in the face of Fourth of July visitors
-Panaman City News Herald, 7-4-05

* Coast Guard is posting a weekend search-and-rescue crew at Carrabelle for the second summer
-Tallahassee, 7-4-05

* $14 million Augustine Beach renourishment project that began last week will restore some of the lost beach, creating more room for people and driving, but the improvements will not help until next year
* Beach driving divides beachgoers
-St. Augustine Record, 7-3-05

* Fifty years ago today, the four-mile Dauphin Island bridge was opened, for the first time allowing the public and island residents a way to get between the mainland and island without a ferry or boat
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 7-2-05

* Mickler's lifeguards a welcome sight. The first full-time summer coverage for popular beach
-Florida Times Union, 7-2-05

* Several beaches in Franklin, Wakulla and Taylor counties remain under a warning about unacceptable levels of bacteria. After this week's tests, sites at St. George Island, Carrabelle Beach, Alligator Point, Shell Point, Mashes Sand, Keaton Beach and Cedar Beach were found to still exceed acceptable thresholds for enterococcus and/or fecal coliform. Most of those beaches have been under a warning since early June
-Tallahassee Democrat, 7-2-05

* The money needed to save the Morris Island Lighthouse is in sight after a U.S. Senate committee approved a $2.2 million earmark.The Charleston landmark could fall into the sea if its base isn't stabilized
-Charleston Post and Courier, 7-1-05

* For years, boats have been docked permanently in South Carolina while the owners didn't bother to register or pay taxes, and county officials couldn't catch them to send them a property tax bill. But that sweetheart deal is about to end
* Dolphins living along coastal Georgia may be harmed by chemicals in the water, but scientists don't think dolphins in the Hilton Head Island area are being affected even if they've traveled through the polluted area
* When the gates close at Hilton Head Island beach parks, island resident Burnett Moody thinks local residents lose out while tourists get a break
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 7-1-05

* Shearwater die-off puzzling, 299 seabirds found on Volusia's shores
-Daytona News Journal, 7-1-05

* Gulf County property values jump 65 percent
-Port St. Joe Star, 6-29-05

* The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office will be out patrolling, possibly giving out tickets for possessing alcohol on the beach that could cost $1,062. Bringing beer, wine and liquor to the beach is against the law on Hilton Head
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-30-05

* Dan Crowley and his "Posse" took up the trail of a massive 42.64-pound king mackerel that would eventually lead their fishing team to the king's hideout, the famous "Captain's House." The Captain's House is located just north of the St. Augustine inlet and is famous for giving up its share of tournament-winning kingfish
-Fernandina Beach News Leaader,  6-30-05

* Bull sharks and humans have something in common: Both species head for northern Gulf Coast beaches every summer. Those migratory patterns intersected with disastrous consequences during the first week of this summer
-Daytona News Journal, 5-30-05

* Alabama coastal officials said Monday that sharks are not showing up in state waters in the numbers seen last summer, despite two recent attacks in the Florida Panhandle
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register 5-28-05

* The road connecting Pensa-cola and Navarre beaches is nearly ready to reopen, meaning there will be two roads off the island during the annual Blue Angels practice on Friday and the air show on Saturday.
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-30-05

* A Tennessee teenager was upgraded Wednesday to stable condition in Bay Medical Center’s surgical intensive care unit, although surgeons believe the shark attack victim will need months of recovery before being fitted for a prosthetic limb
-Panama City News Herald, 5-30-05

* A shark attacked and critically injured a 16-year-old who was fishing in waist-deep water off Cape San Blas on Monday
* With scallop season set to open on Friday – the season runs from July 1 through Sept. 10 – researchers are describing this year’s numbers in St. Joseph Bay as the best since 1996, well above the anemic counts from last year and years prior
-Port St. Joe Star, 5-29-05

* Anglers catching cobia throughout the Broad River and Port Royal Sound began seeing the benefits of a state program to boost the population earlier this month
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-29-05

* The Georgia Sea Turtle Center, planned for Jekyll Island, the turtle rehab facility will also educate about these animals, which nest on the Georgia coast
-Savannah Morning News, 6-29-05

* $14 million beach renourishment project that officials from the state, county, and Army Corps of Engineers hope will buffer St. Augustine Beach from hurricanes
* To the local surfing community, the beach renourishment that is underway on St. Augustine Beach means one major thing: waves
* Reports that the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club closed the nearby ocean Sunday due to sightings of marine life fins were "blown out of proportion
-St. Augustine Record, 6-28-05

* Baitfish signal arrival of sharks, Volusia known for nips, not chomps
-Daytona Beach News Journal, 6-29-05

* A second shark attack Monday morning off the coast of Florida’s Panhandle has beachgoers on edge and on the lookout. On Monday afternoon, swimmers scurried out of the water near Camping on the Gulf in Miramar Beach when someone yelled “shark.”
-Destin Log, 6-29-05

* It took a team effort to save teen attacked by shark at Cape San Blas, those who helped recount their story
-Tallahasse Democrat, 6-29-05

* Shark danger small in South Carolina
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-28-05

* Doctors amputated a leg of a teenage boy who was attacked by a shark while fishing in waist-deep water off Florida's Panhandle on Monday, two days after a 14-year-old girl died when a shark attacked at another beach 80 miles away
-Florida Times Union, 6-28-05

* A 16-year-old boy lost his leg Monday after he was bitten by a shark at Cape San Blas
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-28-05

* Dangerous beaches - Fears elevated as second shark attack occurs
-Tallahassee Democrat, 6-28-05

* Eight remote fishing camps on a 400-acre state preserve west of Fripp Island will be shuttered this week, forcing families who have been fishing off the shores of the small islands and hummocks for decades to close up and leave the maritime forest to the wildlife
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-27-05

* A 14-year-old girl's death from a shark attack near Sandestin reminded beachgoers Sunday about a fact of life on the Gulf Coast
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-27-05

* Island celebrates Daufuskie Day despite rain
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-26-05

* Clark Lowther is walking away from his Lemon Island Marina business to make room for a modern, high-end replacement
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-26-05

* The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $54,834 to the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service to help restore the state's oyster habitat
-Savannah Morning News, 6-25-05

* WHY OUR BEACHES ARE vanishing. A political order decades ago is robbing us of one of the coast's most valuable resources
-Brunswick News, 6-25-05

* There are two things St. Johns River anglers can count on during the summer -- afternoon thunderstorms and dock fishing
-Florida Times Union, 6-26-05

* Crowds turn out to watch sea turtle lay eggs
-Daytona News Journal, 6-26-05

* Six new lifeguards have completed necessary training and will join the Pensacola Beach staff this week -- five days before the annual Blue Angels air show and Fourth of July weekend
* Shark kills girl, 14, off Sandestin
* Rebuild Underwater Northwest Florida is working to replenish the Pensacola Bay Area’s artificial reef system that was damaged by Hurricane Ivan
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-26-05

* WAS HUNLEY'S TORPEDO BATTERY-POWERED?
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-25-05

* Florida defines beachfront property lines
-Destin Log, 6-25-05

* Cape Berm Construction to Begin July 5
-Port St. Joe Star, 6-23-05

* Lifeguards on duty patrolling the beaches of St. Simons Island
-Brunswick News, 6-23-05

* Many marinas along the South Carolina coast need a place to dispose of the muck dredged from the bottom of waterways, a state survey found
-Beaufort Gazette and Courier, 6-20-05

* Daytona's Main Street Pier, damaged by storms, to be restored to 1930s look
-Tallahassee Democrat, 6-19-05

* Friends of the Ogeechee River, a volunteer organization, is merging with the Canoochee Riverkeeper to form the Ogeechee Canoochee Riverkeeper
-Savannah Morning News, 6-18-05

* Years of unkept promises to deepen Brunswick's harbor may cost the port one of its most faithful customers
-Brunswick News, 6-17-05

* Dozens of anglers and community leaders made it clear: Closing the Gulf of Mexico’s grouper fishery for part of the year would have a devastating economic impact in the community
-Destin Log, 6-18-05

* Shrimpers brace for a slow commercial trawling season
-Beaufort Gazette, 6-17-05

* Loggerhead turtle nests are flourishing on Lowcountry shores, with Hunting and Fripp islands seeing more nests in the first six weeks of this nesting season than their totals for all of last year
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-17-05

* Beachcombing can be a magical pastime, but is not without its responsibilities
-Savannah Morning News, 6-17-05

* Beach renourishment continues at 32nd Avenue South Tuesday in Jacksonville Beach
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 6-15-06

* Those who make their living on the sea made their message to the National Marine Fisheries Service loud and clear Thursday night: Temporarily closing grouper fishing could put them out of business
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 6-17-05

* Rip currents, which can challenge strongest swimmers, kill 100 people a year in nation
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-14-05

* Georgia shrimp season to open Wednesday at 7 a.m; early catches are expected to be average to below average
-Savannah Morning News, 6-14-05

* Fort Pickens park will not reopen on Thursday as planned. Tropical Storm Arlene, though weak by some standards, caused extensive damage to the 4.2 miles of Fort Pickens Road between the park entrance and the ranger station
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-14-05

* Some had jumped off the Main Street Pier a hundred times. Sunday afternoon, in honor of the pier's recent makeover, they made an exception. Inside the pier restaurant some 20 ex-guards calmed their nerves with Bud Light, preparing to jump again
-Daytona News Journal, 6-13-05

* When the new Cooper River Bridge opens, about 80 percent of the old bridges will be added to artificial reefs in the Atlantic Ocean
-Charleston Post and Courier, 6-12-05

* Turtle watchers were astounded to discover a nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle. It was only the third time since 1988 that one of the world's most endangered turtles has laid her eggs on a Volusia County beach
-Daytona News Journal, 6-11-05

* Loggerhead turtles making a strong Sea Island return
-Beaufort Gazette 6-7-05

Gone to The Beach!

* Daufuskie Day, scheduled for June 25, will feature things that make Daufuskie Island unique, with everything from deviled crabs to tours of historic Gullah churches and schools
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-3-05

* Ceremony unveils new Cumberland welcome center
-Brunswick News, 6-2-05

* U.S. Congressman Ander Crenshaw announced last week that $4.5 million has been earmarked to dredge Fernandina Harbor and begin renourishing four miles of beach on Amelia Island
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 6-3-05

* Hilton Head is working on setting up a new program known as Pictometry that it acquired last month. It is a composite of literally story continues below advertisement thousands of aerial pictures of the island, put into a software program, that will give various town departments greatly increased access to geographical information about Hilton Head
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 6-2-05

* Tybee records its first sea turtle nest of the season
-Savannah Morning News, 6-2-05

* Coastal Georgia should expect increasing numbers of visitors to the Cumberland Island National Seashore, the director of the National Park Service said Wednesday
* The first two years of alligator hunting in Georgia have proven to be so popular that state officials have decided to nearly double the number of licenses available for this year's season, while also adding 35 more counties to the list of approved hunting sites
-Florida Times Union, 6-2-05

* A major battle in the war over development on Perdido Key could be decided tonight by the Escambia County Commission. Commissioners are scheduled to vote on a proposal to abolish the key's 7,150 dwelling-unit cap
-Pensacola News Journal, 6-2-05

* A $12.5 million deal that won approval Wednesday from Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet is designed to protect state-controlled waters from oil drilling and end decades of litigation
-Tallahassee Democrat, 6-2-05

* Hilton Head's waterway homes have worst septic tank problems
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-31-05

* Volunteers strive to protect turtle nests
-St. Augustine Record, 5-31-05

* Despite perfect weather, some Memorial Day beachgoers in Volusia County found their day at the shore cut short Monday because of soft sand and high tides
-Daytona News Journal, 5-31-05

* DNR sting nets 2 brothers who were poaching Yonges Island shrimp crop
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-30-05

* Bluffton oysters facing endangerment?
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-30-05

* Hurricane Ivan's destruction, cloudy skies and eventually rain again kept Memorial Day weekend crowds well below normal Sunday on Pensacola Beach
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-30-05

* Panama City Beach restores sand washed away by hurricane
-Tallahassee Democrat, 5-30-05

* Lifeguards, beach police preparing for crowds at St. Simons
-Brunswick News, 5-27-05

* Turtle release has beach crawling with fans
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-27-05

* Hundreds of wannabe surfers ages 4 to 80 are expected to attend Saturday's day-long Family Surf Fest on Pensacola Beach
* Beach Guide
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-27-05

* Four people were rescued from a New Jersey-based dinner cruise yacht that was tossed in rough seas and damaged Tuesday night off the coast of Fripp Island
-Beaufort Gazette, 5-26-05

* Boulders emerge on St. Simons, beachside rocks stop strollers, but they're not a recent addition
-Florida Times Union, 5-26-05

* Florida's Fort De Soto named North America's top beach
-Daytona News Journal, 5-26-05

* Memorial Day weekend is the first big test since of the ability of Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key to handle flocks of vacationers safely and of emergency responders to take care of people who get into trouble since Hurricane Ivan struck Sept. 16
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-26-05

* Southern Co. agrees to help research wind energy off Georgia coast
-Savannah Morning News, 5-24-05

* More than six months after Jacksonville Beach voters overwhelmingly approved limits on the height of high-rise buildings in their city, several developers are challenging the restrictions, claiming it has lowered the value of their land
-Florida Times Union, 5-25-05

* St. Augustine Beach renourishment begins in June
-St. Augustine Record, 5-25-05

* Scientists want to learn the source of the nutrients that make the Port Royal Sound abundant in fish and shellfish
-Brunswick News, 5-24-05

* Since Friday, the Beach Patrol has shut down all vehicle access north of Zelda Boulevard in Daytona Beach, and things remain "messy" near University Boulevard, he said
-Daytona News Journal, 5-24-05

* Get out your water guns. We're just days away from the Tybee Island's 19th Annual Beach Bum Parade
-Savannah Morning News, 3-22-05

* Rough surf at Volusia County beaches this weekend kept many beachgoers out of the water and vehicles off the sand
-Daytona News Journal, 5-23-05

* Folly Beach to bulk up with renourishment, 2.3 million cubic yards of sand will help spare shoreline, homes
-Charleston Post and courier, 5-21-05

* Scores of Navarre Beach condominiums are expected to reopen shortly after June 1, helping bolster a tourism season hurt by Hurricane Iva
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-22-05

* Two whales were found dead on Georgia beaches in the last week. Both were dwarf sperm whales
-Savannah Morning News, 5-19-06

* Brunswick has big plans for Liberty Ship Park
-Brunswick News, 5-18-05

* Hilton Head Town Council on Tuesday gave first-round approval to a study that will determine if the local government should get more involved in the management of beaches
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-18-05

* Alligator sightings may soon be on rise
-Brunswick News, 5-16-05

* Pawleys Island is finally cutting its way through some of the Corps of Engineers’ red tape, but that doesn’t yet mean it will get all the money it needs to renourish the beach on the south end of the island
-Coastal Observer

* Shrimpers plot ways to survive
-Brunswick News, 5-14-05

* Beach back? Mixed signals. Tourists weather stormy scene
* Patrols persevere amid changing beach scene. Less manpower, money, space won’t deter staff
-Pensacola News Journal, 5-15-05

* If the Pentagon's recommendations stick, Camden County will soon be home to the nation's only Naval submarine training school, four to eight new attack submarines and 3,300 new military and civilian jobs
-Brunswick News, 5-14-05

* Jacksonville will likely add ships, planes and nearly 2,500 jobs to its military bases over the next few years as the Pentagon plans to consolidate personnel and equipment through its base realignment and closure process
-Florida Times Union, 5-14-05

* The Volusia County Beach Patrol assisted six swimmers who were caught in a rip current Friday afternoon near a the south jetty
-Daytona News Journal, 5-14-05

* Alligators simply a part of Lowcountry landscape
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-13-05

* Woody Woodside, chamber president, said he and others would like to know why decorative lights on the new Cooper River Bridge in Charleston would remain on at night during turtle nesting season, while the same lights proposed for Brunswick's Sidney Lanier Bridge would have to remain off
-Brunswick News, 5-9-05

* Turtle monitor says ATV ban 'vindictive' Flagler County will not let Libert or her volunteers drive ATVs on 11 miles of unincorporated county beaches
-Daytona Beach News Journal, 5-10-05

* Lights out: It's turtle nesting season on the Hilton Head Island
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 5-9-05

* State looks for input on docks. Record growth and controversial projects produce a call for examining how they are regulated
-Savannah Morning News, 5-9-05

* Hunley find still thrills dive team, discovery 10 years ago a turning point for men's careers
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-8-05

* The old Fuller Warren Bridge's chance for a second life as a fishing pier and pedestrian promenade took a drubbing Thursday when the Jacksonville Waterways Commission unanimously recommended tearing it down

* The old Fuller Warren Bridge's chance for a second life as a fishing pier and pedestrian promenade took a drubbing Thursday when the Jacksonville Waterways Commission unanimously recommended tearing it down
-Florida Times Union, 5-6-05

* New approach to controlling mosquitoes through marsh management cuts reliance on spraying and is showing promise elsewhere
-Brunswick News, April 30, 2005

* Signs point to poor turtle nesting season, commercial fishing and beach rebuilding are mostly to blame for the sorry outlook, officials say
-Daytona News Journal, May 1, 2005

* Shrimp season to get late start, Industry facing uncertain future
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-30-05

* Georgia DNR seeking help on shrimp rules
-Brunswick News, 4-29-05

* The end is almost here for early-morning beach driving. The sea turtle season nesting begins Sunday and runs through October. During the season, the beach will open to traffic at 8 a.m., or when the beach has been checked by the turtle patrol, whichever is later. By 7 p.m. all cars must be off the beach
-Daytona News Journal, 4-30-05

* Rough weather, surf in area forecast
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-30-05

* St. Joseph Bay bottlenose dolphin population: Researchers Expect to Achieve Research Goals by End of the Week
-Port St. Joe Star, 4-28-05

* Georgia health officials have lifted the water quality advisories issued at St. Andrews beach on the south tip of Jekyll Island Feb. 23, and at St. Simons Island's north beach near Gould's Inlet, but swimmers beware: The bacteria that spurred the warnings could return
-Brunswick News, 4-28-05

* South Beach Marina in Sea Pines has been sold to the owner of the Salty Dog Cafe for just over $2 million
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-26-05

* Hopeful shrimpers launch fresh season
* Technology should eliminate the need for harbor dredging, the process of sucking up all that built-up silt, at the downtown terminal at least, saving the port about $750,000 a year
-Chharleston Post and Courier, 4-25-05

* Hilton Head Island seasonal beach rules back in action
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-25-05

* Fishing bridge to get FEMA help: Agency ’committed’ to pay for restoration, officials say
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-25-05

* The Hilton Head would manage tourism-related dredging projects, most likely Shelter Cove, Harbour Town and South Beach. The town would use beach preservation fee money -- a 2 percent tax on lodging -- to serve as construction manager of the projects. The marina owners would pay for the actual work
- Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-24-05

* Most of the state's severely eroded beaches won't be repaired until the peak of hurricane season despite $161 million available for the project
-Daytona Beach News Journal, 4-24-05

* While crews work feverishly to replenish the beach, motorists continue to ignore signs, park in restricted areas and find any open place to enjoy the beach, even if that puts them in harm's way
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-24-05

* Sand should begin filling the beach on Hunting Island this weekend as a $1.4 million emergency renourishment project gets under way for the fast-eroding beach ravaged by the 2004 hurricane season
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-23 -05

* Converting the old, half-demolished Fuller Warren Bridge into a fishing pier on downtown Jacksonville's riverfront would cost about $2.7 million -- roughly the same amount as building a new pier from scratch
-Florida Times Union, 4-23-05

* A grand opening will be held May 1 for the first dog park in jacksonville Beach
-Fernandina Beaches Leader, 4-22-05

* Carrabelle Riverfront Festival - April 23, 2005
-Tallahassee Democrat, 4-23-05

* Commercial crabbers will scour brackish water for the next four weeks in search of blue crabs with thin red lines around their backfins. The thin red lines are an indication of ecdysis, a molting stage where a crab peels off its old shell to grow about 30 percent larger
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-22-05

* House-to-house mail delivery will resume to residents of Pensacola Beach
* Pensacola Beach soon will have funding to restore the island's white beaches to its pre-Hurricane Ivan state
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-22-05

* Fisherman catch sharks from the beach
-Walton Sun, 4-21-05

* Cumberland Harbour's plans to build a large marina at Point Peter on the St. Marys River has the blessing of the Georgia Coastal Resources Division, but the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) has filed an appeal to have the plans reviewed in greater detail.
-Camden County Tribune and Georgian, 4-20-05

* A multi-year process of identifying nonconforming docks in Palm Valley, which has caused frustration among dock owners and embarassment to a federal agency, continued Thursday
-Fernandina Beaches Leader, 4-20-05

* It has been years since business was looking good for the local shrimping industry. Battling high fuel costs and cheap imports, it's often all Georgia shrimpers can do just to make ends meet
-Brunswick News, 4-18-05

* GEORGETOWN--The effects of development on the coastal environment will be tested in a 3,500-acre laboratory of beachfront ponds, longleaf pine, gum and cypress wetlands
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-18-05

* Water clarity, scallop crops and sea grass growth in the eastern arm of St. Andrew Bay markedly improved in the months after December 2001
-Panama City News Herald, 4-18-05

* Ossabaw Island archaeological projects uncover clues to life on a barrier-island plantation
-Savannah Morning News, 4-16-05

* St. Augustine's 160-year-old seawall will undergo a $4 million preservation project
-St. Augustine Record, 4-17-05

* Spring means business for alligator trappers
-Daytona News Journal, 4-17-05

* Folks arrive in waves to live on coast Beaufort County, home to Hilton Head Island, grew the most in the state between 2000 and 2004
-Charleston Post and Courier, 4-16-04

* Areas off South Carolina's coast could be among those explored if federal lawmakers pass bills to lift bans on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-16-05

* It's a busy time of year for Cesar and the rest of the Bluffton Oyster Co. staff because a springtime tradition has begun -- soft-shell crab season
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-16-05

* Objects buried along the coastline in the 1930s are haunting the St. Johns County Recreation and Parks Department as employees try to determine how many are buried and how they can be removed
-Fernandina Beaches Leader, 4-15-05

* Population explosion in Flagler, St. Johns
-St. Augustine Record, 4-15-06

* Red snapper season opened Friday in Florida waters, launching an annual fishing frenzy Fishing opens in federal waters Thursday, which means anglers won't have to stay within nine miles of the Florida coast
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-16-05

* Beachgoers reminded: Swim at your own risk
-Walton Sun, 4-16-05

* State Rep. Ray Sansom has known for months it would be difficult to push through the state Legislature a 2 percent bed tax for all short-term rental properties in Destin
-Destin Log, 4-16-05

* One of the state's largest projects to restore shoreline erosion caused by last year's hurricanes began Friday on nearly 17 miles of beaches in and around this Panama City
-Tallahassee Democrat, 4-16-05

* Apalachicola River dredging study fuels opposition
-Tallahassee Democrat, 4-10-05

* The spring roe shrimp season is on the horizon and area seafood store owners and fishermen who have weathered slow winter business are looking forward to putting out fresh, local shrimp and fish in place of the frozen stock
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-11-05

* South Carolina officials are beginning their watch for stranded leatherback turtles as the animals begin their passage through the waters off the coast of the Lowcountry this month
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-11-04

* Glenn Henderson was straddling the surfboard across from his buddy when he felt something like a bite on the foot early Saturday at Crescent Beach
-Florida Times Union, 4-11-05

* Bird enthusiasts flock to Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 4-10-05

* MIRAMAR BEACH — A 1.5-mile stretch of beach in western Walton County has worn away to the point where some areas are less than 10 feet wide. The white sand beaches there are now so critically eroded that only a "massive infusion of sand" can restore them,
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 4-11-05

* A beach renourishment project planned this summer will require sea turtle nests to be relocated, local officials said. The multi-million dollar project to replenish sand along the the shorelines of Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach is expected to take place sometime between May and September. That's in the heart of sea turtle nesting season, which generally runs from May through October.
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 4-8-05

* Shifting shore means unsafe surf
* Parking spaces along area beaches will be more difficult to find than unbroken sand dollars this tourism season as Hurricane Ivan repairs continue
* It's going to be at least mid-summer before historic Fort Pickens and the surrounding park area reopen for visitors
-Pensacola News Journal, 4-10-05

* Environmental groups are challenging the construction of the largest marina complex in Georgia, Cumberland Harbour development near St. Marys
-Savannah Morning News, 4-6-05

* Gov. Mark Sanford and six former South Carolina governors are backing the S.C. State Ports Authority's plans to develop a Jasper port on the Savannah River and calling on the county to abandon what's been a decadelong effort
-Beaufort Gazette, 4-6-05

* If you're strolling along the beach and see a metal cylinder sporting the words "Do not touch," leave it alone. It may be a military container filled with hazardous material, the U.S. Navy says
-Brunswick News, 4-5-05

* Environmental dredging has become a growth industry in Florida
-Daytona News Journal, 4-6-05

* Beaches expected to lose large amounts of sand, such as North Forest Beach, did lose sand. But the stretch of beach from the mid-island Folly to Fish Haul Creek lost more sand than expected in specific areas, such as near Port Royal Plantation's beach club. That area lost about 93,000 cubic yards, or about 45 percent, of the sand put on that beach during the town's 1997 renourishment project.
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 4-6-05

* Nesting shorebirds attracted to predator-free, man-made island in the mouth of the Savannah River
-Savannah Morning News, 4-6-05

* Jekyll Island Fire Department Chief Richard Caton has some advice for those who want to swim out to sandbars that surface offshore at the beach during low tide: don't
-Brunswick News, 3-31-05

* S.C. offshore drilling has its pros, cons
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-31-05

* Swimmers should steer clear of the southernmost end of Amelia Island for the next few days. According to the Florida Department of Health, results of Friday's saltwater testing showed a high amount of bacteria that is harmful to humans and animals
-Frenandina Beach News Leader, 3-30-05

* Official: South Florida sharks shouldn't worry Volusians
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-31-05

* Proposed ConocoPhillips Co. liquefied natural gas terminal could wipe out about a quarter of the annual redfish harvest in Alabama and Mississippi
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 3-30-05

* Walton County officials declared a state of emergency at county beaches and kept people out of the water Monday. Dangerous rip currents brought on by storms during the weekend prompted officials to close the water and fly double red flags telling beachgoers to stay out of the gulf.
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 3-29-05

* Frustrated with the politics of fishing catch limits, South Carolina conservationists are pushing legislation that would give state biologists greater say over the future of saltwater fisheries
* Fluctuating redfish have able advocate in local angler
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-27-05

* The Ashley Marina’s move to “dockominiums” has pushed out boaters and created something of a crunch in slip space in Charleston
- Coast News, 3-27-05

* Fishermen should do well this weekend at Nassau Sound for excellent eating whiting and hard-fighting black drum
-Fernandina News Leader, 3-26-05

* A Santa Rosa Beach couple has taken dune restoration into their own hands. Since Hurricane Ivan hit in September, Stephen and Debbie Holmes have spent their own money to restore the original 10-foot dune in from of their home
-Walton Sun, 3-26-05

* PANAMA CITY BEACH A project that will add about 30 feet of width to a 16-mile stretch of Bay County beaches should begin late this week or early the next — just as the tourist season gears up
-Panama City News Herald, 3-27-05

* Charleston's forts, plantations and other attractions, mystified by declines in attendance, now know what ails them
* Space at the dock gets scarce as more slips are sold; More and more, public dock space is slipping away
* Lighthouse funding hopes dim; Corps of Engineers lacks money to start Morris Island project
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-27-05

* Efforts to build sand-retention devices aimed at replacing a portion of a sea wall on Daufuskie Island are moving forward
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-27-05

* Half the money generated by Beaufort County's bed tax this year will go to the tourism marketing efforts of the county's three chambers of commerce
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-27-05

* As Ponte Vedra Beach nears build-out and demand for a Ponte Vedra address remains high, condominium conversions have skyrocketed, slashing the number of rental
-Ponte Vedra Leader, 3-25-05

* A project to renourish 3.4 miles of eroded beachfront at Navarre Beach will cost more than $11 million, an increase of at least $2.4 million because of new damage from Hurricane Ivan. Nevertheless, plans are proceeding to begin pumping ashore more than 2 million cubic yards of sand from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-26-05

* The Sea Pines master plan is at the center of legal action and other appeals as developers and Hilton Head Island officials argue over what construction should be allowed in the community
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-25-05

* Tips on fishing the Gulf Stream
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-24-05

* HotSpots Charts, LLC

* Why is it called Kings Bay?
-Kings Bay Periscope, 3-24-05

* Florida Supreme Court Supreme Court said in a case stemming from the drownings that cities that make beaches attractive to swimmers have an obligation to warn the public of known dangerous conditions, such as rip tides
-Daytona News Journal, 3-25-05

* With spring break pretty much a washout at Pensacola Bay Area beaches, tourism officials are worried that the summer season may hold more of the same: Overall plan -- aimed at boosting the ailing local tourism industry hit hard by Hurricane Ivan last year -- also involves an invitation from area residents to relatives and friends to come and vacation in Escambia County
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-24-05

* With 13 urgent calls for help, Wednesday marked the first day of 2005 that emergency personnel had to pull numerous swimmers out of the gulf in Okaloosa and Walton counties
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 3-24-05

* Local boaters are hoping a stream of interest will turn into a flood of support this year for a proposed sailing and rowing center on Jenkins Island
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-23-05

* Georgia legislation extends a ban on the harvest of sponge crabs, egg-bearing females, that has been in effect since 2002. Chapman's bill adds 36 months to the ban
-Brunswick News, 3-23-05

* City loses fight for bigger berms on the beaches
-Destin Log, 3-23-05

*  About 100 boats sat in the Matanzas River for a few hours Sunday waiting to sail through St. Augustine's traditional Blessing of the Fleet
-St. Augustine Record, 3-21-05

* In years past, a weekend at Pensacola Beach or Perdido Key was the solution for a close-to-home getaway, but Ivan left beach communities there and on the Alabama Gulf Coast with limited lodging option
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-22-05

* Fernandina Beach Mayor Greg Roland called Tuesday night for an external investigation to determine if three oceanfront houses on South Fletcher Avenue were built in compliance with city codes regarding height and setback
-Fernandina Beache News Leader, 3-20-05

* A study of crabs and oysters shows toxic pollution in the Pensacola Bay system is concentrated in "hot spots," especially in area bayous, rather than spread uniformly throughout the system; researchers didn't find any oysters in Perdido Bay
* Much of Pensacola Beach's core business is ready for the normal rush of out-of-town visitors that follows the warm weather. But the lack of rental units and hotel rooms have left people wondering how many people will come calling
* Oriole Beach: Residents say it feel as if they have ’hit the slums.’ Bay Street, six months after Hurricane Ivan, still looks like a disaster zone
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-21-05

* Oriole Beach NW Coastal Classification Map

* Their colleagues in the House and Senate clearly aren't biting, so two Big Bend legislators who want to string some gaps into Florida's coastal net ban might try their luck with a petition campaign
-Tallahassee Democrat, 3-21-05

* S.C. now right spot for traveling whales. mammals spotted off coast as they migrate from Florida toward north Atlantic region
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-20-05

* Is living on Jekyll Island a bad deal or a steal? Nowhere else on Georgia's developing coast can land be had so cheaply — between $200 and $400 annually for interior lots as well as those fronting marshes and beaches
-Brunswick Newe, 3-19-05

* It’s taken years, but the town of Pawleys Island finally has its permits to dredge Pawleys Creek
-Coastal Observer

* The case of the disappearing dune fences has baffled some of Hilton Head Island's beachgoing sleuths: Some of the dunes have grown so large that they've spread past and buried the original barriers
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-19-05

* Beach Patrol warns of possible rip-currents in the Daytona Beach area
-Daytona News Journal, 3-19-05

* In the last few months, fish and bird species have been popping up in places they're not normally found -- an Arctic bird off St. Augustine Beach, an armored catfish normally in South America found in the Indian River Lagoon, spiny dogfish normally farther north found in Ponce de Leon Inlet
-Daytona News Journal, 3-18-05

* As of April 1, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources will require recreational crabbers to use lime or fluorescent green floats to mark the locations of their commercial-style crab traps, which measure no more than two cubic feet and include at least two escape rings
-Brunswick News, 3-15-05

* Six months after Hurricane Ivan, some county business and homeowners still are waiting to settle insurance claims, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency is urging Floridians to prepare now for the 2005 hurricane season
-Panama City News Hearald, 3-16-05

* Hunting Island has been removed from a list of South Carolina beach nourishment needs as state officials are confident that two planned projects will restore the state park's eroding shores
- Beaufort Gazette, 3-15-05

* State wildlife officials are changing the rules for dealing with nuisance alligators, citing staff and funding cuts. Communities and groups with the wherewithal to handle the problem will have to do it without the state's help or money
* One of the reasons the beaches are in the worst shape since Hugo is ... very little money has been dedicated either at the state, local or federal level to maintain the beaches
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-15-05

* Georgia taxpayers are being asked to give commercial shrimpers a big hand in promoting their product to consumers
- Brunswick News, 3-14-05

* Port Royal Sound Conservancy coalition holds first meeting to protect Port Royal Sound
-Beaufort Gazette, 3-12-05

* One of the most impressive undertakings that our South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has ever administered is the marine artificial reef program
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 3-10-05

* Neptune Beach City Council Monday took its first step towards legislating how residents landscape beach and Intracoastal Waterway accesses. Councilors say they want to prevent the type of landscaping at public streetends that creates an "image of private property."
- Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 3-8-05

* The Volusia County Health Department has posted swimming advisories at Main Street and Silver Beach Avenue in Daytona Beach, and Dunlawton Avenue in Daytona Beach Shores
- Daytons News Journal, 3-11-05

* Hilton Head proposes using a projected surplus in the town's beach preservation fee, a 2 percent tax on overnight lodging, to allow the town to serve as a construction manager for dredging projects at tourism-related marinas on the island. The marina owners would pay the actual dredging costs
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 3-10-05

* Tourists could pay double to drive on Volusia County's beaches next year
-Daytona News Journal, 3-9-05

* Gulf Coast fishermen making their way to Birmingham this week to weigh in on the contentious issue of whether the federal government should cap the number of shrimping vessels in the Gulf
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 3-8-05

* More than 450 surfers and their families will compete in the Southeast Regional Championships on St. Augustine Beach next month
-St Augustine Record, 3-7-05

* Proposed tax, which would add a 2 percent fee to all short-term rentals in Destin
-Destin Log, 3-5-05

* A state panel on Friday approved plans for the largest marina complex in Georgia. Atlanta-based Land Resources Companies can now go forward with plans to build two marinas, one each on the St. Marys and North rivers, and three community docks on Point Peter Creek. The facilities are part of Cumberland Harbour, an upscale 1,000-acre subdivision near St. Marys in Camden County
-Savannah Morning News, 3-6-05

* Turtle lawsuit delay could help Volusia, Justice Department asked a judge this week to freeze proceedings in a federal sea-turtle lawsuit,
-Daytona News Journal, 3-4-05

* Volusia County learned it made the state's annual list for beach nourishment funding, with $7 million earmarked for widening Bethune and southern New Smyrna beaches
Daytona News Journal, 3-2-05

* Expect the General Assembly to put $5 million in the Beach Renourishment and Trust Account that will benefit Edisto Beach. A small part, about $200,000 of the proposed money, would go toward a renourishment study of Pawleys Island
-Charleston Post and Courier, 3-1-05

* U.S. Coast Guard hopes they will file a newly devised float plan that can be obtained via the Internet. Called the world's only life-saving device on paper, the plan is a form boaters can fill out to leave a record of where they're going and when they're coming back
-Brunswick News, 2-28-05

* U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Float Plan

* Gov. Jeb Bush is seeking another $67 million to repair hurricane damage to Florida beaches, double the state's normal annual spending on beach renourishment
-Pensacola News Journal, 3-1-05

* With six new walkovers planned to protect the dune systems in Jacksonville Beach, one resident is asking the city to repair its existing structures before adding more
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 2-23-05

* South Carolina state officials could begin allowing more bridges to be built to marsh islands after a state Supreme Court ruling this week
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-24-05

* Mayor Tom Peeples used an invitation to speak to the local Sierra Club to push his proposal that public money be used to oversee dredging projects on Hilton Head Island, saying the environmental benefits warrant the town's involvement
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-24-05

* In Glynn County and across the nation, there is a shortage of lifeguards
-Brunswick News, 1-23-05

* 35-foot-tall house under construction on South Fletcher Avenue that practically elbows its neighbor may be the wave of the future in Fernandina Beach
- Fernandina Beach News Leader, 1-23-05

* PANAMA CITY BEACH Officials are hoping for a smooth transition to a new state-endorsed, five-flag surf warning system
-Panama City News Herald, 1-24-05

* The shrimping industry hits choppy waters; area shrimpers say tariffs levied on imported shrimp aren't enough to keep them around for much longer
-Florida Times Union, 2-21-05

* Appraised values increased on more than 40,000 parcels south of the Broad River. More than 98 percent of properties on Hilton Head Island gained value, excluding condominiums and mobile homes that don't have land
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-20-05

* With a channel of up to 50 feet deep, the new Jasper County terminal will be able to service the world's largest container ships, which is not now possible in either Charleston or Garden City, Ga
-Carolina Morning News, 2-19-05

* "So a lot of guys just ain't shrimping anymore," said George Marra, executive director of the Georgia Shrimp Association. "They're just throwing up their hands and tying up to docks, and the boats are sinking. Just rotting and sinking."
* The chairman of a Washington appropriations subcommittee is optimistic that an injection of federal funds might soon get Brunswick's hobbled harbor deepening project moving
-Brunswick News, 2-19-05

* Only hospital in Port St. Joe fights to live
-Tallahassee Democrat, 2-20-05

*A proposed law to regulate the number of blue crabs caught and the crabbers fishing for them is headed for the state Legislature after the South Carolina Natural Resources board approved it Friday
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-19-05

*HUNLEY'S WOODEN BENCH BARES CLUES
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-18-05

*A herd of North Atlantic right whales is roaming the continental shelf between Jacksonville Beach and Cumberland Island, Ga
-Florida Times Union, 1-18-05

*Re-enactors join battle to preserve Morris Island
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-17-05

*Hunting Island lighthouse will reopen this weekend
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online,m 2-17-05

*Beach at Mickler's Landing in Ponte Vedra is set for daily lifeguards
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 2-16-05

*NASA  researchers have developed a program allowing them to better analyze satellite images of the shifting streams of green and blue to measure changes in how much phytoplankton is growing across the world's oceans
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-16-05

*Third attempt may prove the charm for a computer model that simulates what would happen if the Savannah River were deepened
-Savannah Morning news, 2-16-05

*Dredging and sand-dumping practices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have dramatically harmed Alabama beaches and necessitated ongoing restoration projects costing the public about $28 million, says a nationally recognized coastal engineer
*Next month will make it five years since lawyers, hired by island property owners, filed a federal lawsuit, blaming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the yearly loss of 15 feet of beach front from parts of Dauphin Island's southern coast
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 2-14-05

*Historic lighthouse on Hunting Island reopens
-Beaufort Gazette, 2-15-05

*While Florida led the nation with 12 attacks in 2004 -- and Volusia County once again led the state with three bites -- both numbers were significantly down from the previous year. The statewide figure was the lowest in Florida since 1993
-Daytona News Journal, 2-15-05

*Wanted: A few good lifeguards for Pensacola Beach
-Daytona News Journal, 2-15-05

*Some experts think an experimental netting system called a porous groyne will help keep more sand on the beach where it belongs
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 2-15-05

*The Bridge of Lions rehabilitation project will begin Monday
-St. Augustine Record, 2-13-05

*Pawleys Island’s south end public beach access is getting its annual face lift, this time on the federal government’s dime. Workers with Goodson Construction were on the beach with their heavy machinery this week, taking the sand that moved and bringing it back to shore up the parking area
-Coastal Observer

*A proposal that would limit the catch of recreational crabbers and reduce the number of commercial crabbers is up for consideration by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-12-05

*Jacksonville Beach is planning to add six new dune walkovers
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 2-11-05

*Flagler County trying to add beach access
-Daytona News Journal, 2-12-05

*Beach erosion barriers growing piece by piece in New Smyrna Beach
-Daytona News Journal, 2-11-05

*A project considered critical to the future of the Port of Brunswick, the Colonel's Island rail connector got a major lift Tuesday in the Georgia General Assembly
-Brunswick News, 2-9-05

*President Bush included no funding for beach renourishment in Fernandina Beach in his proposed budget for the new federal fiscal year that begins Oct. 1
*Nassau County limits beach driving limited
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 2-9-05

* Work under way in New Smyrna to replenish beach
-Daytona News Journal, 2-10-04

*Development, water quality in the Bluffton area concerns for oyster harvests
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-09-05

*It could be months before beach driving returns to pre-hurricane levels, particularly south of Ponce de Leon Inlet, Beach Patrol officials said Tuesday
-Daytona News Journal, 2-09-05

*The Gulf waters at Miramar Beach are lapping very close to the steps of beachfront homes and the width of the beach in some areas of Destin is noticeably smaller than last year
-Destin Log, 2-09-05

*Hunting Island State Park's historic lighthouse is set to reopen Feb. 18 after being closed to the public for almost two years
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-8-05

*Hunting Island State Park lighthouse - closed to visitors since May 2003 - has been repaired and is scheduled for reopening Feb. 18
-Carolina Morning News, Low Country Now, 2-4-05

*The first official shrimp boat race in 28 years is scheduled to take place on the Amelia River waterfront at the foot of Centre Street at 3 p.m. Feb. 5 - Part of the first Fernandina Super Shellfish Feast
-Fernandina Beach News Leader, 2-4-05

*Off-white sand removed from beach
-Destin Log, 2-5-04

*Corps of Engineers is taking bids for a Folly beach-rebuilding project that will pump about 2 million cubic yards of sand onto the barrier island between the county park and a point just north of the washout
-Charleston Post and Courier, 2-4-05

-Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says any net with mesh openings larger than two inches is an illegal gill and entangling net under the Florida Constitution
-Tallahassee Demcrat, 2-3-05

*Georgia's fragile blue crab population has reversed its slow crawl toward extinction, but a coastal state senator wants to guarantee the crustaceans three more years for recovery
*About $37 million is needed to keep the Texas, the dredge that is scraping the Brunswick and Turtle river shipping channels down to 36 feet deep
-Brunswick News, 2-1-05

*Georgia's fragile blue crab population has reversed its slow crawl toward extinction, but a coastal state senator wants to guarantee the crustaceans three more years for recovery
*About $37 million is needed to keep the Texas, the dredge that is scraping the Brunswick and Turtle river shipping channels down to 36 feet deep
-Brunswick News, 2-1-05

*Work is partially done on the dredging project aimed at clearing out Calibogue Cay Creek in Sea Pines, community officials say
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 2-1-05

*The scientists working to remove the wooden bench from the Confederate submarine Hunley can safely theorize it was none too comfortable
Charleston Post and Courier, 1-29-05

*Nor'easter batters area beaches
-Daytona News Journal, 1-29-05

*The catches we've had this year have been as good as any other year, But look at (the) prices. You can't stay in business like this
-Brunswick News, 1-27-05

*A coastal Georgia lawmaker says he will soon introduce legislation to continue a three-year-old ban on harvesting egg-bearing blue crab, ban set to expire in July
-Savannah Morning News, 1-26-05

*Police were called to the Jacksonville Beach fishing pier Saturday to settle a dispute between anglers and surfers over how close is too close to surf near the pier
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 1-25-05

*$3.17 million project to stabilize the Morris Island Lighthouse to begin later this year
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-26-05

*One of the Charleston area's biggest marinas may soon be selling rather than renting its slips, Ashley Marina to sell its slips outright as individual "dockominiums"
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-25-05

*Proposal to turn the hurricane-damaged Navarre Beach Fishing Pier into a marine sanctuary and build a new fishing pier at Navarre Beach State Park has the backing of some area divers and anglers
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-25-04

*Eglin Beach Club remains off limits. Hurricane Ivan destroyed the club on Okaloosa Island near the Destin Bridge more than four months ago. Its future is now in the hands of the Air Force Materiel Command
-Northwest Florida Daily News, 1-25-05

*The same government body that banned beach driving wants to open more access to Flagler County's coarse yet spacious sands
-Daytona News Journal, 1-24-05

*Gulf Islands National Seashore officials hope County Road 399 between Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach will be open by Memorial Day
-Pensacola News Journal;, 1-24-05

*Pensacola City Council has approved in concept an ambitious plan to develop a community park and museum on the downtown waterfront
*Tourism forecast bleak, thousands of would-be tourists will have no place to stay, officials from Perdido Key to Navarre Beach estimate 50 percent to 60 percent of lodging available before Hurricane Ivan will be repaired or replaced by the storm’s first anniversary
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-23-05

*Jasper County filed a notice of condemnation Wednesday in the county's Circuit Court to acquire 1,863 acres on the Savannah River for a shipping port
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-20-05

*An international symposium brings 1,000 turtle researchers to Savannah
-Savannah Morning News, 1-20-05

*International Sea Turtle Society

*Jasper County filed a notice of condemnation Wednesday in the county's Circuit Court to acquire 1,863 acres on the Savannah River for a shipping port
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-20-05

*An international symposium brings 1,000 turtle researchers to Savannah
-Savannah Morning News, 1-20-05

*International Sea Turtle Society

*It's possible that a piece of a British warship that was sunk during the War of 1812 has been hiding in plain sight for seven years, on Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-17-05

*Jasper County filed a notice of condemnation Wednesday in the county's Circuit Court to acquire 1,863 acres on the Savannah River for a shipping port
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-20-05

*An international symposium brings 1,000 turtle researchers to Savannah
-Savannah Morning News, 1-20-05

*International Sea Turtle Society

*It's possible that a piece of a British warship that was sunk during the War of 1812 has been hiding in plain sight for seven years, on Dauphin Island
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-17-05

*The S.C. State Ports Authority voted Tuesday to move ahead with acquiring 1,863 acres on the Savannah River owned by the Georgia Department of Transportation and targeted for development by Jasper County
-Beaufort Gazette 1-19-05

*Hilton Head Island's beach renourishment project should be delayed at least another six months in order to save money and possibly include more areas in the project
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-19-05

*Many emergency sand berms have washed out, said Joe Nolin, manager of the Ponce de Leon Inlet and Port District. The berms are not likely to be replaced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
-Daytona News Journal, 1-19-05

*Six-foot breakers have torn into already-eroded beaches in Volusia and Flagler counties, uprooting more than 100 poles marking conservation zones and scouring sand out from under walkovers. In Volusia, all but a few sections of beach are closed to driving, and will be indefinitely
*Developer says condo-building wave coming
-Daytona News Journal, 1-18-05

*Jasper County battles for new shipping port
*Firm targets port terrorism
-Charleston Post and Courier, 1-17-05

*After decades of debate, a $77 million project to rehabilitate the historic Bridge of Lions while keeping it on the National Register of Historic Places will begin on Valentine's Day
-Florida Times Union, 1-17-05

*Public beach access, under pressure from Florida's growing population, will be preserved if a bill sponsored by state Rep. Aaron Bean passes legislative muster. Bean is the sponsor of the Open Beaches Act
-Fernandina News Leader, 1-15-05

*Proponents of a $70.7 million community park and maritime museum on Pensacola's downtown waterfront say the project could serve as a catalyst for healing and a turning point for the city after September's devastating hurricane
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-16-05

*Hunting Island State Park may look to more than double its stock of cabins over the next few years, adding 20 to 30 cabins to the 14 that already are a consistent tourist draw
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-15-05

*While the Beaufort City Council's choice for an extended day dock along The Bluff met general approval from residents Tuesday, opposition from residents is brewing
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-14-05

*Developing the Beach
Daytona News Journal, 1-14-05

*Massive Effort Raises Sunken Shrimp Boat
*Oystermen Want Winter Bars Open in September
-Apalachicola Times, 1-13-05

*Jasper officials make offer for Savannah port site
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-11-05

*An experimental aquaculture system at Skidaway Institute grows sea bass for the sushi market
-Savannah Morning News, 1-11-05

*Fernandina Beach Commis-sioners voted Tuesday to proceed with eminent domain lawsuits against city beachfront property owners to obtain perpetual easements for a beach renourishment project
-Fernandina News Leader, 1-10-05

*Despite months of discussion, environmental and business interests could not agree on how best to regulate isolated freshwater wetlands before South Carolina lawmakers return to Columbia
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-10-05

*ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- The last large piece of pristine oceanfront property in St. Johns County soon will be developed into high-end housing
-St. Augustine Record, 1-10-05

*DAUPHIN ISLAND -- Hurricane Ivan tripled the price tag of taxpayer-funded projects to rebuild eroded beaches, bringing eventual costs to more than $6 million
-Dauphin Island Mullet Wrapper, Mobile Register, 1-9-05

-Hurricane Ivan cleanup crews are expected to wrap up efforts to remove construction debris and clean sand on Pensacola Beach by April 3
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-10-05

*South Carolina Maritime Foundation

*The Charleston Boat Show is linking with Clear Channel Radio Group to promote a contest in search of the Ugliest Boat in the South Carolina Lowcountry
*A South Carolina tall ship project, plagued by lagging fund-raising, has missed another date – the projected 2004 launch of a publication tie-in with the ship
-Coast News

*In the past year, no fewer than six boutique hotels — as opposed to large national franchises — have begun construction or received approval in St Simons Island from the Glynn County Planning Commission
-Brunswick News, 1-8-05

*Plans to build a $450 million deep water shipping terminal on the Savannah River launched forward Friday as the Jasper County Council announced three critical agreements with SSA Marine, the world's largest port developer
-Beaufort Gazette, 1-8-05

*South Carolina officials say a study to determine the dredging needs of marinas throughout the state should be finished by the end of the month
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-8-05

*Surfers by the dozen flock to the Jacksonville Beach shoreline Thursday
-Ponte Vedra Beaches Leader, 1-7-05

*Contractors on Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island are recovering sand washed onto private and public property by Hurricane Ivan, removing debris and moving it back to the beach to build emergency berms. Without those berms, officials say the barrier islands are especially vulnerable
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-8-05

*Top 10 waterfront stories of 2004
-Coast News

*Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton will take a second look at turning the half-demolished Fuller Warren Bridge into a "river pier,"
-Flirida Times Union, 1-7-05

*Four Polish lifeguards credited with keeping Pensacola Beach free from drownings last year could return this summer
-Pensacola News Journal, 1-7-05

*Hilton Head Island should delay starting a massive project to add sand along the Atlantic shorefront until mid-2006, according to a recommendation by the town's staff because of an expected lack of contractors due to beach-rebuilding projects in Florida and other areas hit by hurricanes this past fall
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-6-05

*Manatee deaths declined by more than 100 last year in Florida -- and scientists credit a lack of red tide, not human caution
-Daytona News Journal, 1-6-05

*Now that the long-awaited Jacksonville Beach oceanfront pier has opened at Fourth Avenue North, the city has developed a policy for surfing and swimming near the structure
-Florida Times Union, 1-5-05

*Members of Beaufort County's legislative delegation say they're intrigued with the idea of creating a coastal caucus, a voting block charged with looking out for the common interests of coastal areas
-Hilton Head Island Packet Online, 1-2-05

*After five years of planning, construction and postponements, the $3.5 million Jacksonville Beach pier at Fourth Avenue North opened following a 1 p.m. dedication ceremony
-Florida Times Union, 1-1-05

*Work continues on dune restoration efforts in Wilbur by the Sea
-Daytona News Journal, 1-1-05

***Gone to the beach!!