Ep. 75 Jockey's Ridge: How a Fearless Mother Stood Down a Bulldozer to Save a Natural Wonder For All the People
History Fix - Een podcast door Shea LaFountaine - Zondagen
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Perched between the ocean and the sound in Nags Head, completely dominating the narrow sliver of land that makes up part of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, is a monumental sand dune, a mountain of lush golden sand. This dune system, known as Jockey’s Ridge, is somewhere around 4,000 years old and can reach heights of over 100 feet. It’s majestic, it’s miraculous, the tallest living sand dune on the east coast, a unique ecosystem home to a myriad of coastal creatures, a landmark and navigation t...