{"id":454,"date":"2014-12-01T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=454"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:28:58","slug":"hyde-county-wetlands-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/hyde-county-wetlands-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"A LITTLE SLICE OF HYDE COUNTY: Investigating the Science of Wetlands Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
After a dusty ride down farm roads bordered by carpets of soybeans and the stubble of late-season cornfields, Mike Burchell stops the truck next to what looks like an impenetrable swamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He and his lab manager, Tiffany Messer, don work boots and snake chaps. She pockets a hand-held GPS unit while he shoulders a bush axe. Then the pair heads down an overgrown trail into the dense vegetation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n