Re: Hatteras Island Wavesailing Access could vanish April 3

On Mar 10, 9:38 am, Charles <clateg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charles, you said all we could do was wait. Is there anything we can
do? Should we be writing letters to local officials, Judge Boyer,
etc?
The Island Free Press web site didn't mention anything about that.

Since this is a Federal issue, you can send your comments to either NC
senators. Richard Burr or Elizabeth Dole.

Sorry about being off the group for a few days but I had to drive my
minivan with my family down to Hatteras for a much needed vacation.
Caught some awesome 4.2 sailing and did a little surf fishing the day
before and after. Took the gas guzzling 1998 Ford Bronco out on the
beach with my wife and kids and made sure we got a lot of sun on the
back of our necks. Sitting at a desk I'm losing that redneck color,
that the environmentalists claim I have. For the first two years that
I lived on the island I didn't even own a 4 wheel drive. I walked our
on the beach when the sand was soft and drove my 2 wheel drive Chevy
van a few times after storms when the sand was all hardpacked. I
didn't see many piping plovers back then. This bird, which is the
crux of the issue to close the beaches, is found from the Canadian
Maritime Provinces to North Carolina. Cape Hatteras is the southern
most nesting area for this species. In the past few years 1 to 3
pairs of birds have been spotted along the entire 70 mile length of
Hatteras. These 1 to 3 pairs have caused temporary beach closures
costing millions of dollars to implement and police. Yet even with
the closures no chicks fledge. the main reason is that storms and the
resulting overwash seem to get the birds long before human interaction
does. Why isn't this bird extinct yet? Probably because the bulk of
the population decides to nest from Newfoundland to the Eastern
Shore. To close the beaches for these very few wayward pairs of
birds seems extreme. Sort of like 6 Hawaiian buddies deciding to
paddle out at Ho okipa when its blowing 25 to get the windsurfers
whistled out of the water by the lifeguards.
These is a "Status Quo" plan in place right now. Beaches are open
until nesting pairs appear, then they are closed until nesting pairs
leave. It's a compromise that seems to be working. Why the
environmentalists wants total closure doesn't make sense to me.

For you environmentalists out there, are you aware of the Gas
Chambers that were devised to the Canadian Geese on Pea Island. You
might have Canadian Geese in your neighborhood, you know the ones that
fill golf courses, soccer fields and playgrounds with poop because
they set up camp year round instead of migrating. so when a
"resident" population decides that the back ponds of Pea Island
National Wildlife Refuge look like a safe place to live , the
environmentalists realized that these birds were eating all the
grasses so that when the fall migrating birds stopped in on their way
north in the spring birds on the way south in the fall that there
wasn't enough food because all of the "resident Geese had eaten it.
So the environmental solution is to wait until the flock of resident
geese start to molt. Geese can't fly for the days that they are
molting. The National Wildlife Service then goes out with long wands
and corrals all the geese and forces them into the back of an empty
tractor trailer, they round up several hundred geese. Once all the
geese are inside the trailer they shut the doors and then pipe Carbon
Monoxide while the truck drive to the local land fill, to dump the
dead bodies. All in the name of environmentalism so that migrating
birds have enough to eat. I wonder what the response would be if your
local school decided to "manage" their resident goose population in
the same manner.

If you're interested in voicing an opinion on this matter, you can
find the NC State Senator's contact info here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=NC
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