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hatteras closure
Published Apr. 3, 2008
Everyone who loves to access nature anywhere in the country pay attention to the court case this Friday, April 4th. (http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/1021824.html) Long story short, some groups wish to press the courts to close access to Hatteras Island's most remote locations. It is difficult to choose non-biased wording, but those who have *actually* been there to relax, fish, photograph, surf, walk, shell, etc. will concur that it is a special place. This lawsuit, on the surface is about environmental protection. At its fundamental root it is about one group using its financial position to force its will on a people and a place that have not done anything to deserve such impositions. The native people of Hatteras have a long history, predating every current environmental organisation, of respecting the balance of nature on Hatteras Island.
Please, if you can send any kind of note of support for folks out there, do so. Log on to www.NCBBA.org or www.OBPA.org to learn more. Thank you for caring!
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GOLO member since January 11, 2008
April 3, 2008 4:45 p.m.
Good, maybe then the tourists will go somewhere else.
Best possible solution? Buy out all the landowners, grandfather in the ones that are currently there, and when they die out, bulldoze everything, get the people off the banks and turn it back into the pristine wilderness that it should have remained from the start.
Just my $0.02
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April 3, 2008 12:14 p.m.
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April 3, 2008 9:52 a.m.
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April 3, 2008 9:30 a.m.
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April 3, 2008 9:20 a.m.
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April 3, 2008 8:27 a.m.
Group wants to close remote areas of Hatteras. Okay, why is that bad? If it protects the beaches and wildlife, why is it bad? The tourists obviously cannot control themselves.
I used to go to the Outer Banks every summer when I was young. The last time I went was in 2001, I think. It has changed, and that is sad.
Maybe allow access to remote areas ONLY if one has a card that proves that one is a year-round resident?
I have no answers, and I'm not sure what you're looking for.
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April 3, 2008 8:17 a.m.
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