Mission 19 · Canaveral National Seashore · FL · 2026
Playalinda storm plan
The National Park Service has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Canaveral National Seashore, Florida.
The agency files it as “Canaveral National Seashore, Playalinda District Storm Adaptive Management Plan”
Record openthe agency stopped taking comments October 4 · what you find still counts
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
September 7
Window closed
October 4
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Canaveral National SeashoreWildlife sign
“The collected data show that the southeastern beach mouse does not use the eroding dune within the Playalinda District as habitat.”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Southeastern Beach Mouse. Nobody has been out to check it.
Walk the dune along Playalinda just north of Parking Lot 8, early morning before wind wipes the sand. Look for tiny mouse tracks, tail drags, and small burrow holes at the dune base and in the vegetation edge. A close photo of small mouse tracks or a burrow opening in that dune, with a wider shot showing where along the dune you stood.
Everything else the document says about the ground.
7 more sentences, in the agency’s own words, with where each one sits in the document. Any of them is fair game for a photograph.
“the dune ridge is tallest along the southern parking lots (20-25 feet NAVD88) and decreases in height starting at approximately Parking Lot 7 to reach a lower height of 10-15 feet NAVD88 by Parking Lot 8”
Under Dune SystemWhere: Beach Road between Parking Lot 7 and Parking Lot 8, continuing north through Klondike Beach backcountry
“No eastern indigo snakes or burrows have been identified in the Playalinda District; however, the species is known to use other areas of the park for habitat and foraging.”
Under Eastern Indigo SnakeWhere: Playalinda District, including gopher tortoise burrows, mammal burrows, and old stumps in pine flatwoods and tropical hammocks
“the park has never documented a nesting hawksbill sea turtle on its 24 miles of beach”
Under Sea TurtlesWhere: the 24 miles of undeveloped shoreline at Canaveral National Seashore
“the existing road (between Parking Lots 8 and 9) is approximately 100 feet from the shoreline, and within roughly 40 feet from the toe of the low dune”
Under Shoreline DynamicsWhere: Beach Road between Parking Lot 8 and Parking Lot 9
“Parking Lots 8, 9, and 10 regularly experience standing water multiple days after storms and high-water events”
Under Parking LotsWhere: Parking Lots 8, 9, and 10
“Only a few archeological sites have been identified within the northern stretch of Playalinda District (north of Eddy Creek), and none of the known sites would be affected by the proposed plan.”
Under Archeological ResourcesWhere: the northern stretch of Playalinda District, north of Eddy Creek
“this ridge is backed by dense growth of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), and other species of hardy shrubs and grasses”
Under Dune SystemWhere: along much of the Playalinda District dune ridge
The decision
Who is deciding, and when.
Deciding
National Park Service
Kind of decision
NPS project (PEPC)
The agency’s title
Canaveral National Seashore, Playalinda District Storm Adaptive Management Plan