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December 1, 2019
By Marina Schauffler

Weeks after Hurricane Florence converted Wilmington, North Carolina—headquarters of the accredited North Carolina Coastal Land Trust—into an island, the stress of the storm’s aftermath was evident in the voice of Executive Director Camilla Herlevich. The land trust’s offices and most of its staff members’ homes escaped major damage, she said, and they had resumed work within days via phones and laptops while still evacuated at scattered sites. “My staff has been great,” she added, but “it’s really, really tiring.”