Who’s defending Cape Hatteras?
National park in North Carolina, 28,386 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1953.
The groups
No group is listed for Cape Hatteras yet
A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to Cape Hatteras: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.
Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Cape Hatteras. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.
The situation
What’s happening to Cape Hatteras
America’s first national seashore is losing ground, literally. Rising seas and intensifying storms are eating the barrier islands that have protected the North Carolina coast for millennia.
- 1953Established as first national seashore
Source: Yale Environment 360
Your move
How to stand for Cape Hatteras
A ready call script on Cape Hatteras, plus any comment window as it opens.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Cape Hatteras: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.
Cape Hatteras needs groups in the fight.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.