A woman walking on the boardwalk at Fort Macon State Park stopped when she saw Laura Taylor wearing long-sleeves and a cargo vest sagging under the weight of myriad gadgets despite the 95 degree heat.
“Have you had any luck?” she asked. She added, “Thanks for doing what you’re doing.”
Taylor, a PhD student at NC State University, said moments like that happen more than people might expect. Strangers already know about the crystal skipper, a small brown butterfly found only along a 30-mile stretch of North Carolina’s barrier islands along the Crystal Coast…