What about Padre Island National Seashore in Texas? 
I'm sure many MORE birds are lost there due to cars
driving along the beach.

Richard

--- Norm Saunders <> wrote:

> Another endangered species alert.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: CKennedy <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  
> To:  
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:46 AM
> Subject: [BCAlist] Urgent Piping plover request
> 
> 
> Attention all local BCA members -- Please try and
> attend this
> important meeting. If you cannot attend but would
> like to comment,
> please send a written statement to me and we will
> submit it for the
> record.
> 
> 
> 
> ALERT
> Defend Threatened and Endangered Species on
> America's National
> Seashores!!   Tell the National Park Service to
> Protect Wildlife and
> Plants on Cape Hatteras National Seashore
> 
> Attend National Park Service Public Scoping Meeting
> in Washington, D.C.
> NOVEMBER 3
> CITY MUSEUM, 801 K St. NW
> 5:30-9:30 pm
> 
> The National Park Service (NPS) is conducting a set
> of three public
> scoping meetings to gather public opinion about an
> interim plan to
> protect several threatened and endangered
> species-including the
> piping plover and several species of sea
> turtles-from the impacts of
> Off-Road Vehicles (ORVs) driving on the beaches of
> Cape Hatteras
> National Seashore.
> 
> The last of these public meetings is scheduled for
> Thursday,
> November 3 from 5:30-9:00 pm here in Washington,
> D.C. at the City
> Museum, located at 801 K St. N.W.  The public
> hearing portion of the
> program will run from 7-8 pm and you can sign up to
> speak during
> that time, or you can come earlier, from 5:30-6:30,
> or later, from
> 8:00-9:00 for an open house, in which you can
> discuss the issues
> informally with NPS representatives.
> 
> Since the two NPS public meeting being held in NC
> near the national
> seashore are likely to be dominated by pro-ORV
> speakers, it is
> critical that those who care about protecting the
> wilderness values,
> and the birds and turtles of Cape Hatteras come out
> for this D.C.
> meeting to give some balance to the NPS process.
> 
> Please come by and make your feelings known to the
> NPS!!!!
> 
> NPS has embarked on a process to develop an Off-Road
> Vehicle
> Management Plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore,
> but it will
> take until 2008 to put this plan into effect.
> 
> Therefore, NPS must develop an Interim set of
> management actions and
> decisions that will offer protection for several
> species of
> protected animals, including the threatened piping
> plover, which
> nests near the beach and whose young chicks feed
> where the ORVs
> drive.
> 
> Unfortunately, but predictably, the Bush
> Administration is siding
> with the ORV groups who are demanding that NPS not
> limit driving on
> the beach even during the critical nesting season. 
> ORV groups
> vehemently oppose any efforts to require for permits
> to drive on the
> beach or set limits on numbers, times or otherwise
> restrict their
> recreation on the beaches of the park.
> 
> These groups ignore the fact that by law every
> national seashore in
> the country that allows ORV use on the beach is
> required (and has
> been since the mid-1970s) to have a management plan
> in place that
> sets limits, controls speeds, requires permits, and
> protects
> wildlife from adverse impacts.  Cape Hatteras is the
> only major
> national seashore in America that has failed to
> develop a plan that
> manages recreation to protect wildlife.  Others,
> including Cape Cod,
> Assateague Island, Fire Island, approved their plans
> years ago.
> 
> Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a unit of the
> national park system,
> by law is intended to be "conserved...unimpaired"
> and the wildlife
> therein is to be protected from adverse impacts. 
> Unique among the
> national seashores, the law that established Cape
> Hatteras requires
> NPS to manage it for its "wilderness" experiences. 
> Clearly today,
> it does not do so.
> 
> We need your help on November 3.  The survival of
> the Piping Plover
> and other species may depend on it! 
> 
> 
> 
>   _____  
> 



		
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