Judging by the emails in my inbox and articles I’ve seen in other newspapers in the region—Charlotte, Va. Beach, Raleigh—the issue of beach access for off-road vehicles on Hatteras Island and some of the surrounding beaches (Ocracoke, for instance) has taken on a life of its own. For a summary and some links to the groups involved, scroll down to my previous post on the matter. This is the latest from the Island Free Press of Ocracoke and Hatteras.
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2008Archives/03.16.2008-ResponseFromDareHydeAndCHAPA.html
At the center of the disagreement between environmental groups and North Carolina’s Dare and Hyde Counties is the piping plover and the habitat that groups like the Audubon Society say it needs to reproduce. Needless to say, the people who live and work on Hatteras and the many that come there to vacation and fish do not want want their beach access limited by the shore bird.
Here’s the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s report on that habitat: http://www.fws.gov/nc-es/piplch/piplch.html
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