The restoration of New Hope Creek reached a major milestone last year with the removal of the Concrete Bridge and the Billy Erwin Dam, allowing the creek to flow freely through the Duke Forest for the first time in nearly a century. While construction has concluded, the scientific work is […]
Daily Archives: July 21, 2026
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Written by: Andre Chan, MF ‘26 Surveys in the Duke Forest All year long, coverboards lie flat on the Duke Forest floor at research sites called transects. To the untrained eye, they are nothing worth noting—simple wooden and tin sheets laid in a straight line over several hundred feet. But […]