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BANNER DAILY UPDATE
Fall-back plan finalized for ORVs
Banner Daily Update posted Mon. June 11
By Kaimi Rose Lum
Banner Staff
PROVINCETOWN -- Just in time for the plovers' busy season, the National Seashore has announced its final strategy for keeping the off-road vehicle (ORV) corridor along the outer beach as accessible as possible to beach drivers.
In the event that plover brooding, hatching and/or fledging requires the Seashore to close certain portions of the ORV corridor, one or more of the following alternative routes will be opened, in the following order: first, the beach near High Head and Head of the Meadow, prior to July 1 only; second, the beach north of High Head, prior to July 21 only; and third, Coast Guard Beach in Truro, during the day, prior to June 30 only (Coast Guard Beach is normally restricted to night fishing.)
The fall-back options, devised through an Environmental Assessment process in which the Seashore solicited suggestions from the public, will be put into effect "only as needed to try and maintain a half-mile corridor, in an attempt to avoid a near or total closure of the ORV corridor," according to a press statement from the Seashore. (A fourth option that had been proposed -- opening Herring Cove north as a "last resort" -- was not included in the final package "because it will require a special regulation that needs formal review and approval that cannot be completed for this summer," the press release stated.)
For the full text of this story see the June 14 Provincetown Banner.
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