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Get outdoors in the new year: 2023 is the Year of the Trail in North Carolina

December 15, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Outdoor activities in the new year are being boosted by The Great Trails State Coalition’s campaign to highlight the legislature has designated 2023 as the Year of the Trail in North Carolina. It […]

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North Carolina trails may get financial boost from the state

June 3, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Hiking and paved trails in the state which saw high traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic may be getting a boost of cash for improvements and maintenance. The spike in outdoor activity and trail […]

Call of the wild: Great outdoors is great escape in pandemic

March 27, 2021 Pat Graham and Tales Azzoni, Associated Press

For those venturing off the beaten path, be advised — it’s a little crowded out there. By nature’s standards, anyway, as the great outdoors has become the great escape. Hiking trails, parks and other open […]

Congress passes plan to boost conservation, parks

July 24, 2020 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan bill that would spend nearly $3 billion on conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands is on its way to the president’s desk after […]

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No fishing license needed to fish July 4

July 3, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH – July 4 is “free fishing day” in North Carolina where everyone — residents and non-residents alike — can fish in any public body of water from 12:01 a.m. to 11: 59 p.m., without […]

Black bird watchers draw attention to racial issues outdoors

June 28, 2020 The Associated Press

Jason Ward fell in love with birds at age 14 when he spotted a peregrine falcon outside the homeless shelter where he was staying with his family. The now 33-year-old Atlanta bird lover parlayed that […]

Big Rock tournament off to fast start; Jordan’s boat lands 442-pound marlin

June 10, 2020 North State Journal Staff

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, a nine-day fishing tournament highlighted by the Monday through Saturday quest to catch the biggest blue marlin off the Crystal Coast, is underway for the 62nd straight year. According […]

Social distancing with North Carolina shad

March 25, 2020 Cory Lavalette

WELDON — Weldon is known as the Rockfish Capital of the World because of the fish that swim up the Roanoke River to spawn usually starting in April. But before the striped bass really hit […]

Conservationist Eddie Bridges joins NC Sports Hall of Fame

July 3, 2019 Brett Friedlander

RALEIGH — As Eddie Bridges recalls, there were really only two things for young men like himself growing up in Burke County to do back in the days following the end of World War II. […]

Big, hungry marlin lead to wild first day at Big Rock

June 12, 2019 Shawn Krest

MOREHEAD CITY — If we’ve learned anything in the first day of competition at Big Rock, it’s that the marlins have been eating well. The 61st annual Big Rock Tournament is in full swing, and […]