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Originally Posted by OLD GOAT
I find it amazing that the word PARK is left out when referring to the Cape cod National Seashore --PARK--.
as I understand it parks are for people and wildlife areas are for wildlife. Being old enough to have attended town meeting before the park was formed I can remember the greatest concern was that people that have been using the area could continue using it in the same manner.
As someone with little time left I feel I should set the record strait about the formation of the park.
I don't want you to think that I hate wildlife ,but rather I feel that all can use the beach at the same time
If seashore birds are in that much danger then I suggest that the birds be raised in that nice fish and wildlife building in Roselin ,Va. were all the folks hang out wasting taxpayer money.
I make that statement after babysitting in the apartment building next door and viewing through the window a manpower waist
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Promised over and over, all historic use by people, fishing, hunting, gathering of beach plums and rose hips, walking, swimming, not to be changed... OK.. sure.. the boids and MA audubomb changed all that chit.. when they led Mrs. Tasha away in cuffs for doing something she always did, was the canary in the coal mine...
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Originally Posted by 2na
just got my sticker and was informed that the powers that be have decreed that the back trail to Race Point, Hatches Harbor and the Race will all be closed until late June. They site plovers, but this is really about terns - terns are the new plovers ~
The rangers aren't sure yet exactly what is going on (remember, the rangers don't implement policy, just enforce it - so don't blame them) because this just came down yesterday afternoon. All the bigwigs drove around the beach then issued a vague press release:
Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price announced that there will be changes to the use of the Off Road Vehicle (ORV) Corridor as a result of a recent evaluation of suitable habitat for piping plovers. The immediate effect will be the closure of vehicle access to Hatches Harbor during the piping plover courtship and nesting period.Recent on-site consultations with officials of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service resulted in changes to the management of habitat in the Hatches Harbor area. Additional areas of the sandy spit of Hatches Harbor will be symbolically fenced in April, limiting vehicle access. Fencing and ORV access will be re-assessed as the season progresses, although changes are unlikely before the end of June. Piping plovers are listed as threatened under the Federal and Massachusetts Endangered Species Acts. This decision is consistent with both the 1996 Atlantic Coast Piping Plover Recovery Plan guidelines and the 1998 Negotiated Rule for Off-Road Vehicle Use within Cape Cod National Seashore.
'Additional areas of the sandy spit of Hatches Harbor will be symbolically fenced in' - I love the term 'symbolically fenced in'.
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George Price.. well.. can't say it in writing..but you know what I mean
yes the fencing is very symbolic..because most of the time, there is NOTHING, inside the fence.. the birders version of the shell game..and the head Bureaucrat Puppet, follows along very well
truth be told..we are all "Symbolically Fenced OUT"
also, truth be told.. it's only gonna get worse....Old goat, and 2na.. look at what has been taken away, and what's left.. they already have over 90 %.... what, is truly left, and for what small amount of time are we allowed to even see it?
National PARK?.. try National Bird Sanctuary.. it will be renamed...