Sandwich to Deploy Patrols to Protect Plover Birds

“Sandwich Set to Deploy Plover Police"
Cape Cod Times, June 14, 2008
By George Brennan

George Brennan reports that the town of Sandwich will spend up to $10,000 this summer to provide patrols to protect nesting endangered piping plover birds in the dunes of Town Neck Beach and Spring Hill Beach. The move comes a week after the town’s Board of Selectmen was scolded by an official from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife’s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program for lax protection of the birds, which are protected by both state and federal law. Also, a federal official has threatened to block Sandwich’s plan to restore the dunes of Town Neck Beach with material dredged from the Cape Cod Canal unless the town implements a long-term plan to protect the endangered birds.

Related articles:

•  “Selectmen Will Improve Protection of Endangered Species,”
     The Sandwich Broadsider, June 9, 2008

•  “Sandwich Faces Piping Plover Pressure,”
     Cape Cod Times, June 6, 2008