This is just my opinion about all of this nonsense. A few things I’ve questioned, and what I just don’t get.
- Piping Plovers have been nesting on the beaches for years… and continue to do so, yet, people have been driving on the beaches all that time. Yet, the birds continue to nest there. We still drive. They still nest. Areas get closed off for them and they nest in areas still that we drive in. So the Audubon Society closes the area. Or the whole beach. Yet, people have been walking and driving those same beaches where they continue to nest. Does anyone catch my drift here? I’m seriously confused. I understand trying to maybe preserve certain areas more or put a plan in tact to save the birds… but closing the beaches? The ones they have always and are continuing to nest at, regardless of our presence? Am I missing something?
- Piping plover aren’t endangered and traps are endangering natural predators that are actually on the endangered species. How can they get away with this?
- Simple. Save a bird – kill an island. Are they really that much more important that people’s lives? Being able to put bread on the table? I didn’t really realize they were at the top of the food chain, top of the priority list.
- They nest on other areas along the east coast. Not just the OBX. Yet, we are having the beaches closed… where they have ALWAYS nested, along with other areas along the coast… that have more population of the plovers. Yet, we’re closing down one area. Again, am I missing something?
- On an editorial somewhere, which I forget, but major props to the person who said this, apparently they close down areas where the birds have nested before hand without even finding eggs. The person responded something similar to how the bird’s just have to give someone a call and have a room reserved for them. It was witty and true. I wish I could find this article.
- A whole island is being destroyed. People are going to lose their jobs, their business, their homes. This cannot happen, we cannot let this happen. As a kid, I used to be afraid that one day, the OBX may be unaccessible by the time I was old enough (and financially stable enough) to make my home there. I was worried about a couple things… natural disasters – (we all know what Hurricane Isabel did. When I saw on tv that it hit the island, and maybe it was over reacting but I was still in middle school… I cried all night). When you think about an island or any stretch of land completely surrounded by water and constantly in the path of hurricanes, you reckon there is a chance that one day, a wave will completely wash it away. Another fear I had was that the erosion would be so bad by the time I could move that there would be nothing left to the beach. Erosion has already effected the beach and is a serious issue (hence – the moving of the lighthouse). I, however, never imagined that the whole island could be destroyed by human hands… yet for some reason I am not surprised that these unreasonable human extremists have already gotten this far.
None of this just makes any sense, and it’s so heartbreaking to think it would even come to this… I just pray everyone’s efforts will bring forth a positive result and that I’ve helped in someway at least…
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