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HAKERS ISLAND, N.C.
Officials have closed access to several spots on the Cape Lookout National Seashore where an endangered bird makes its nest from April through August.
The National Park Service said Friday that nine areas on Core Banks are restricted to help protect Piping Plover nests. The restrictions limit beach access to vehicles, pedestrians and dogs. In most areas, the lower beach and shoreline are open.
The restricted areas are Portsmouth Flats, High Hills, Kathryn-Jane Flats, the Old Drum Inlet area, the New Drum Inlet area, old Ophelia Island, the north tip of South Core Banks, Cape Point, and Power Squadron Spit.
Officials at Cape Hatteras National Seashore have also closed access to some beach areas to protect endangered bird and sea turtle nests.
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Pea Island Geese Slaughter
Not agreeing with the slaughter but my recollection is it was not snow geese but Canadian geese and basically domesticated types that were slaughtered. The excuse, as I recall, was they were using up all the food for other birds like the snow geese.
Sad thing is I also recall they tried to have the birds processed for food for like the homeless but no one would take them.
It's all part of the hypocricy of killing some to supposedly save others. Like where was Audubon, DOW and SELC during the slaughter?????
Harkers Island beaches
This is yet another prime example of legislation from the bench and its domino effect. There have been attempts to get congress to address this matter but it keeps getting blocked. The economies of Dare and Hyde County have already been adversely affected by this nonsense.
The documentation resulting in the beach closures used flawed scientific data and the people again are left without proper representation in congress because of their desire to push their own private agendas and IGNORANCE of what really goes on in real life to hardworking people.
The government has broken promises of the rights of the native inhabitants that were guaranteed when the Park was established. Even the living former bureaucrats INDICATED this. What a shame.
Hatteras Island Native
better than that.....
Where were all the bird protectors when thousand of snowgeese were slaughtered on pea Island Preserve because they were not the bird of choice. THOUSANDS! They were merely slaughtered, I heard no cries then. Just South of these "closed areas" in our National Seashore recreation park, A preserve is extablished, where if you come to rest, nest, or whatever, and are not the breed of bird wanted, they slaughter you. How stupid is this? Should not the park service and enviromentalist locate piping plover nests, which are not native to the area, relocate them to the preserve?
Could someone please tell me
where our sanity has gone? Does no one recognize that nature is a dynamic occurence? I am still waiting for someone to tell me how the disappearance of the dinosaurs has negatively affected mankind. Oh wait, the concern isn't mankind. Silly me.
I would love to hear from all these enviromentalists who can't risk the chance of a bird egg not hatching what their opinion is of human babies being slaughtered?
crazy
That's all I can say about these stories. The way it is going no one will be allowed on the outer banks any longer.
Hey I have an idea!
Let's propose that all Federal dollars be pulled from the National Park Service budgets, and that the enviromentalists fully fund all park service budgets. It has gotten to the point you can not determine the difference between the two.