^ "Biddle property acquisition is plum for Park".^ "Truro campground owner wins $2.4M conservation easement".^ "Cape Cod Campground Permanently Protected".^ "Herring River Tidal Restoration Project"."Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) Activity Patterns on a Roadway at Cape Cod National Seashre". Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press. The wildlife of New England : a viewer's guide (1st ed.). ^ "The 25 Best Beaches in America, According to You! - Coastal Living".^ "19 Beach Vacations That Don't Require a Passport"."Walking Trails - Cape Cod National Seashore (U.S.
^ Wellfleet, Mailing Address: 99 Marconi Site Road ranger, MA 02667 Phone: 50 To speak to a park Us, call 50 for visitor information Contact.Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. ^ "Cape Cod National Seashore Act - P.L.857 Public Law 87-126, Cape Cod National Seashore Act, 11:47AM". ^ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report".Land Resource Division, National Park Service. ^ a b "Listing of acreage – December 31, 2014" (XLSX).The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) has provided more than $8 million to oversee this project that is to begin in 2023. Īs part of the restoration efforts, a number of run-down and unsafe buildings of no historical significance will be removed from areas around CCNS and the affected lands will be restored.
Using funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Trust for Public Land purchased the property and conveyed it to the National Park Service. attorney general during WWII and served as the primary American judge during the post-war Nuremberg trials, was added to the Cape Cod National Seashore in 2011. The Biddle Property, home of the late Francis Biddle, who was the U.S. Representative Bill Delahunt, and former Senator Ted Kennedy. The Trust for Public Land, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, the Truro Conservation Trust, and other groups led a grassroots campaign to support the funding for the purchase price of the conservation easement from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), secured by U.S. In 2010, the North of Highland Campground was protected with a conservation easement. Restoration and conservation efforts Īs part of the NPS Centennial Initiative, the Herring River estuary will be restored to its natural state through removal of dikes and drains that date back to 1909. Īmphibians seen at CCNS wetland areas include Fowler's Toads and Eastern Spadefoot toads. Other animals you may see around Cape Cod National Seashore include the great blue heron, mute swans, bald eagles, and peregrine falcons. Summer brings plovers and songbirds like orioles and warblers. In spring, you may see a woodcox doing their mating rituals, or whales out in the ocean. In the winter, you can find harbor seals and red-throated loons. In the fall, you may see a kaleidoscope of Monarch butterflies. You can find many species of animals, depending on the time of year you visit. Both of these have made "top beaches in the US" lists over the years. These include Race Point Beach in Provincetown and Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. There are several excellent beaches along the coastline with public facilities available seasonally. Notable sites encompassed by the CCNS include Marconi Station (site of the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission), the Highlands Center for the Arts (formerly the North Truro Air Force Station), the Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District (a 1,950-acre historic district containing dune shacks and the dune environment), and the glacial erratic known as Doane Rock.Ī former United States Coast Guard station on the ocean in Truro is now operated as a 42-bed youth hostel by Hostelling International USA. It is administered by the National Park Service. The CCNS includes nearly 40 miles (64 km) of seashore along the Atlantic-facing eastern shore of Cape Cod, in the towns of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans and Chatham. It includes ponds, woods and beachfront of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion. Kennedy, when he signed a bill enacting the legislation he first co-sponsored as a Senator a few years prior. CCNS was created on August 7, 1961, by President John F.
The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) encompasses 43,607 acres (68.1 sq mi 176.5 km 2) on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.
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