Cape Cod National Seashore: a Gem at Risk

“A Cape Cod Gem at Risk”
The Boston Globe, June 22, 2008
By Mike Gildesgame

Mike Gildesgame, Southern New England policy manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club, writes in an op-ed piece that in order to conserve and prevent the privately-held 57-acre North of Highland Camping Area within the Cape Cod National Seashore from being sold to developers, the National Park Service, in partnership with the Trust for Public Land, needs a final $2 million in funding from the federal Land and Conservation Fund. One of the challenges: President Bush’s FY 2009 budget slashed the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 75 percent, providing only $43 million, even though the program is not funded by tax dollars but by lease fees from offshore oil and gas drilling.

For more information on efforts to purchase and preserve the camp area, please read the Association to Preserve Cape Cod's press release of May 5, 2008: "APCC Seeks Federal Assistance for National Seashore Land Purchase."