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Park Service revises Lookout alternatives
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The National Park
Service has revised its draft alternatives for the management plan for Cape Lookout
National Seashore.
The specific changes to the four alternatives that the Park Service released earlier this
year weren't available as we were putting together the newsletter. Most of the options
remain: raze the current Great Island camp and replace it with a new camp near the
lighthouse or build two smaller camps -- one near the lighthouse and the other at Great
Island. Another option under consideration is to keep the camp site at Great Island but
replace the cabins with modern structures.
The Park Service will have two public meetings on the revised alternatives Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 23 and 24, at the Duke University Marine Lab at Pivers Island, which is
off the causeway between Morehead City and Beaufort. The Wednesday meeting will be from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m., and the Thursday meeting will be 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
DIFF Club members on Davis Island Wednesday for the fishing tournament can take the 5 p.m.
ferry off the island to attend that night's meeting. Alger Willis Fishing Camps will run a
special ferry back to the island after the meeting.
Club representatives will meet with the Park Service Wednesday morning to discuss the
revisions. The club's Board of Directors has en |
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dorsed Alternative 4 in the original draft. That alternative
envisions building new cabins at the current camp site and keeping the ferry service at
Davis. The club is opposed to moving the camp to the south end or the vehicle ferry to
Harker's Island.
The Park Service has received more than 500 comments from the public about the
alternatives. Almost all were opposed to building cabins near the lighthouse. In fact,
there's not much support for that option within the Park Service.
Read the DIFF Club's comments to the draft
alternatives, Page 2.
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Fishing Tourney Full
With all 135 slots filled, there will be a full
house when we gather on Davis Island Sept. 24 for the DIFF Club's annual fishing
tournament.
The tournament will begin on noon that day and run through noon Saturday, Sept. 26.
Entrants will compete for $6,100 in prize money in six categories -- red rum, flounder,
bluefish, whiting and two species that will be chosen by the Tournament Committee on the
island before the tournament begins. Cash prizes will be awarded to the five largest fish
in each category.
Alger Willis Fishing Camps, Inc. will once again provide lunch for all contestants on
Saturday.
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A memorable Davis Island fishing trip
pages 4-6
Hurricane Bonnie remodels the beach page 6
State passes tough red drum regulations page 7
Fishing report: drum, Spanish, pompano page 9
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