Article: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CHANGES NIGHT TIME CLOSURES OF CAPE POINT AREA TO PROTECT PIPING PLOVER CHICKS

The National Park Service's Cape Hatteras National Seashore issued the following press release:

Outer Banks Group Superintendent Mike Murray announced that effective Saturday, July 15, the National Park Service has initiated 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. night time closures of the Cape Point area to protect piping plover chicks that moved toward the eastern side of their resource closure on Saturday, July 15. Piping plovers are protected under the Endangered Species Act and are federally listed as a Threatened species. Three chicks hatched at a nest site on the south side of Cape Point on July 13.

At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday there were 98 vehicles on the beach at Cape Point when NPS personnel ...

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