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Effort to safely relocate migratory waterfowl that lived on Fort Wool shows that balancing environmental protection and transportation progress is possible.

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Up until 2020, approximately 25,000 birds called the HRBT's South Island home. Now, they roam the historic Fort Wool.

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The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation shorebird team recently walked up and down the islands beaches and documented every bird it saw as part of the Glob

The Foothills Focus, in partnership with the Anthem Veterans Memorial, honors a local veteran each month. This is another in a series of articles about local veterans who are commemorated

This past spring, Dr. Lenore Tedesco was looking out her window at The Wetlands Institute that sits in the middle of vast marshland in Cape May...

When VDOT started work on the Hampton Bridge and Tunnel Project, construction equipment displaced sea birds that had been nesting there for years. The situation alarmed bird lovers who lobbied the state to create a new place for terns and gulls. Experts identified a piece of land nearby and turned it into suitable habitat – removing trees and adding sand. The birds returned from their winter homes and happily settled in, but there’s a problem with the new arrangement as Sandy Hausman reports...

Fort Wool, a decommissioned Civil War-era military installation near Hampton, isn't just a historical site. It's also where thousands of seabirds, including five threatened species, come to nest after the DWR relocated their habitat off of the HRBT's South Island.

Finding a workable solution to protect seabirds and preserve the history at Fort Wool should be possible.