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Increasing the Park Service's visibility on the island is one of the recommendation of the amendments to the management plan that the Park Service recently approved.

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If you're going fishing on Davis this year, you'll probably meet Chris Stechmann. He's one of three park rangers who enforce fishing regulations and other laws along the 56 miles of beach at Cape Lookout National Seashore. Chris started last summer, and he takes his job seriously.
Unlike some of the other rangers who zip by on 4-wheelers without so much as a smile, Chris will stop, chat and, yes, look in your cooler. He's just doing his job.
So, don't get ugly about it. If you follow the rules, you should encourage Chris to make sure others do as well. Those rules mean nothing unless someone actually enforces them.


	Park Service plans to study if driving hurts plovers

Officials at Cape Lookout National Seashore must complete a study of the environmental effects of allowing vehicles on the beach.
The Biodiversity Legal Foundation, a conservation group in Dare County, has threatened to sue the National Park Service if the study, which was begun in the early 1990s, isn't completed. The study, which is required by the park's management plan, was halted when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said more information was needed to determine if vehicles on the beach were threatening piping plovers, an endangered species, explained Karren Brown, the superintendent of Cape Lookout.
Karren isn't sure if additional research and surveys of the plover will be needed to complete the study. If vehicles are shown to have an adverse effect on the plovers, driving could be restricted in certain areas or at certain times of the year, she said.
Completion of the study has been delayed, and a public meeting would be held before a decision is made, Karren said.

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The Park Service has put up more signs along the back road and in the Great Island camp to inform visitors about driving regulations and other rules. "I don't want it to look like I-95, but I really believe that when people screw up out there it's because they don't know any better," Karren


	The National Park Service will have public meetings before deciding if driving restrictions are needed.

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stationed at Cape Lookout during World War II. Two 3-inch gun emplacements and machine-gun nests were built in the
dunes (they now can be seen just offshore).
The U.S. Coast Guard Station was closed on May 18, 1982. It is now used by the National Park Service for field trips to study the ecology of the island. All of Cape Lookout now belongs to the Park Service. Fifteen houses on the island are leased to individuals.

David E. Yeomans, the retired postmaster on Harkers Island, was born on Cape Lookout in a house he now leases from the Park Service.


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