The National Park Service will implement the annual seasonal closures of village beaches to off-road vehicle (ORV) use within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, beginning at 6 a.m. on Saturday, May 15.  In addition, the beach driving speed limit is reduced from 25 mph to 15 mph in all locations open to ORV use, unless […]

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Environmental groups comment on the Park Service’s DEIS

The National Audubon Society, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Southern Environmental Law Center weighed in yesterday on the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Statement on off-road vehicle management on the Cape Hatteras Seashore. And they don?t like the Park Service?s preferred Alternative F ? one of six scenarios put forward in the document. So now […]

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Restoring an Ocracoke salt marsh

“No wetlands, no seafood” is the logo on a bumper sticker from the North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF.)  It is quite appropriate, therefore, that one of the group’s latest projects is restoring wetlands on Ocracoke Island. The federation teamed up with the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) to replant an acre […]

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The National Park Service has announced the temporary closure of off-road vehicle Ramp 23, which is located approximately 0.3 of a mile south of Salvo on Hatteras Island.  The ramp is temporarily closed for shorebird breeding activity, as prescribed under the terms of the court ordered consent decree.  The ramp is closed to both pedestrian […]

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Down to the wire on DEIS comment – and comments on special birds, refuges, and campfires

Yesterday, my good friend Cathy Burrus called me about making a comment on the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Impact Statement on regulating ORVs on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Cathy attended the Park Service?s public comment meeting and she had a copy of the Coalition for Beach Access ?DEIS for Dummies.? But with only […]

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Joseph Al Hodges, Sr.

Mr. JosephAl Hodges,Sr., age 77, a resident of Pantego, N.C., diedMonday, May 3, 2010 at Pungo District Hospital in Belhaven, N.C. Gravesideserviceswill be held at 11a.m. on Thursday, May 6, atOakdale Cemetery in Washington. A memorial service in celebration oflife will also be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 6, at St. JamesEpiscopal Church in […]

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