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Slice of beach re-opens to vehicles
Banner Daily Update posted Fri. July 27
By Kaimi Rose Lum
Banner Staff
PROVINCETOWN — More piping plover chicks have learned how to fly, a felicitous turn of events both for the plovers and the people who like to drive on the beach.
The National Seashore re-opened 1.2 miles of the off-road vehicle (ORV) corridor on Friday after a brood of plovers at Race Point fledged from the nest. Beach drivers may now cruise from the Pole Line Road out to Hatches Harbor. A section of Race Point North has also been opened. Two miles of the ORV corridor remain open at Coast Guard Beach for night fishing from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Race Point South remains closed to vehicular traffic, and a brood of plovers at High Head is keeping that area off-limits to ORVs as well.
According to the Seashore, however, additional miles along the ORV route will be re-opening in the coming days as more chicks fledge. All plovers preparing to fly remain under intense surveillance by the park’s biologists as it is the fledging of the birds that enables the park to lift the protective perimeter established around the nest.
There are 31 nests altogether in the National Seashore’s North District. Earlier this month, for a period of five days, the Seashore was forced to close the entire ORV corridor to protect the nesting plovers, which are listed as a threatened species.
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Jul 26th, 2007