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NPS Seeks Public's Views on Relocating Bodie Island LSS's #192081 01/26/07 01:27 PM
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OP Lighthouser Cruise Director Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,349 Mid-Coast Maine	Please read...your opinion is needed. Info on how to contact the NPS regarding this is in the press release below. Also, my comments on the 3 choices are below. In a press release from Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the public is invited to express opinions on the relocation of the Bodie Island Coast Guard and Life-Saving Station. The Park is examining 3 areas for the relocation: 1.) On Hwy 12 at the entrance of the Bodie Island Lighthouse 2.) On the sound side of the Bodie Island Lighthouse Grounds 3.) Whalebone Junction (where Hwys. 12 and 158 intersect) You can see photographs of these buildings with an excellent history at Stephen's 'Beach Bum' site... Bodie Island LSS\'s Newspaper article this morning... NPS Wants to Rescue 2 Life-Saving Stations Of the 3 options, my preference would be #2 -sound side of the BILH grounds. You would go off of Rt. 12 through the entrance towards the lighthouse. Soundside would be the now wooded area to your right. The LSS buildings would become part of a really good historical experience. There has been lots of talk in the most recent years of doing this, and making the current keeper's quarters a furnished keeper's quarters (this is a duplex- keeper & family on one side and assistant keeper & family on the other) and moving the store, office and museum to within part of the LSS buildings. Then, the major portion of the LSS's (renovated) would be used towards LSS history. I feel that the last place the NPS should move these buildings is to the Whalebone Junction (option #3)...a site of heavy traffic being directed in several directions with a history of many serious accidents, including fatalities. Option#1 would also create a traffic problem if faced right on the two-lane RT. 12. Following is the NPS proposal with info on contacting and sending public opinion... Quote: RELOCATION OF HISTORIC BODIE ISLAND STRUCTURES Date: January 11, 2007 Contact: Outer Banks Group, (252) 473-2111 Superintendent Mike Murray announced today the National Park Service (NPS) will host a public scoping meeting on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at the Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm to share information and seek public comments on the relocation of the Bodie Island Coast Guard and Lifesaving Stations. The Coast Guard Station is the abandoned historic structure located near MP 22. The adjacent Lifesaving Station is currently used as ranger offices by NPS staff. This scoping meeting is part of the process to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. During the public scoping period, which is not restricted to this meeting, all interested persons will be given the opportunity to review and provide comments on the proposed relocation to a new site within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The structures are currently in danger of destruction by the ocean. Relocation will ensure the preservation of these historic structures. Following relocation, the structures will be stabilized and restored. The Park has established a website for the purpose of providing information regarding the proposed relocation project which will also provide the opportunity to submit written comments regarding the proposal. Beginning Wednesday, January 15, 2007 and ending Thursday, February 15, 2007, comments can be submitted without attending the public meeting by visiting the Park's PEPC website for current information on this subject and submit written comments. The PEPC website address is: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ Choose "Cape Hatteras National Seashore", click on "Bodie Island Coast Guard Station and Lifesaving Station Relocation" or you can address letters to: Superintendent, Outer Banks Group, 1401 National Park Dr., Manteo, NC 27954. To ensure that the comments are included in the process, they should be entered or postmarked by February 15, 2007. Thanks, Judy Judy

Re: NPS Seeks Public's Views on Relocating Bodie Island LSS's #192082 03/19/07 10:58 AM
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OP Lighthouser Cruise Director Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 2,349 Mid-Coast Maine	News from NPS, reported by the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society... Quote: The comment period is over and the final decision will be made ~ May 1st. The National Park (Cape Hatteras) is fairly certain that the final assessment will be for the Bodie Island Coast Guard Station and Life-Saving Stations to be relocated to the entrance of the lighthouse on Highway 12. They are surveying now and will begin the move this spring. The plans call for one of the buildings to be used as an interpretive center for all three structures (Coast Guard, Life-Saving Station and lighthouse). See photos of the Bodie Island LSS buildings on Stephen's site here... Bodie Island Life-Saving Stations Judy Judy

Re: NPS Seeks Public's Views on Relocating Bodie Island LSS's #192083 03/21/07 10:45 AM
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Lighthouse Loon Super Wacko Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,152 Barnegat Bay	Sounds like they made the best choice. Thanks for the update. Stan M New Jersey Lighthouse Lovers ------------------------------------ Harry Wishlist: Tinicum Rear Range, Miah Maull Shoal, Finns Point, Bergen Point, Cross Ledge, Old Ambrose Lightstation, Romer Shoal, Barnegat Lightship, Liberty Lightship.

Re: NPS Seeks Public's Views on Relocating Bodie Island LSS's #192084 03/21/07 09:39 PM
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BeaconBob Super Wacko Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 577 South Jersey ... not far from ...	Great news! Do we know when they will get re-located? Will it be this year? I will be down there for a visit in July...wishful thinking! Bob J ~ 65 Lighthouses, 2 Lightships, 25 Life Saving Stations Visited ~ "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12

Re: NPS Seeks Public's Views on Relocating Bodie Island LSS's #192085 03/21/07 10:50 PM
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seagirt Cruise Director Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,298 Central New Jersey	Great news to hear. I visited them last April, and they were definitely hidden. It's great that they'll be brought "to the forefront"...as well as maybe making the entrance to Bodie a little harder to miss? Now THAT'S wishful thinking. (You'll see in July, Bob.) I'm gussing the 1876 station will be the interpretive centre, just because those tend to be a little smaller, just a general info thing. It's probably then easier to toss some informative panels in there, which I'm assuming is one big room. That leaves the larger later station for a more in-depth museum-type purpose, or as a residence, etc. Just unsolicited conjecture... Greg www.gregfitzgerald.net

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