. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Longtime residents represent a continuum of history on the cape that reaches back at least to the early i8th century. property between Ocracoke Inlet and Cape Lookout, with plans to transfer the land to the National Park Service. When the Cape Lookout National Seashore was established as a separate park unit in 1966, Cape Village property owners suspected that sooner or later they would have to sell their land, either willingly or through order of the courts. Yeomans struck his deal in 1977: He sold his ca
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Longtime residents represent a continuum of history on the cape that reaches back at least to the early i8th century. property between Ocracoke Inlet and Cape Lookout, with plans to transfer the land to the National Park Service. When the Cape Lookout National Seashore was established as a separate park unit in 1966, Cape Village property owners suspected that sooner or later they would have to sell their land, either willingly or through order of the courts. Yeomans struck his deal in 1977: He sold his cabin but kept a 25-year lease to occupy the house. A handful of the other property owners on the cape did the same. Unless their leases are extended, they all will have to abandon the island in the next decade or so. "Congress has already spoken as to how we should manage the seashore," says Bill Harris, the Cape Lookout National Seashore superintendent. "We've held up our end of a fair ; Even though the property is paid for and it would take an act of the Congress to extend or renew those leases, the specter of these long-term leaseholders loading up their belongings for the last time angers some locals. Their presence represents a continuum of human history at Cape Lookout that reaches back at least to the early 18th century. Such a link to the past will be difficult to sustain once the few Lookout old-timers are gone. Already many locals hold the Park Service liable for what they consider the whitewashing of Core Banks' human history. Harkers Island- ers still talk about the day the Park Service burned their squatters' camps on Shackleford Banks, camps some had used for generations with few questions ever raised about their right to be there. Throngs of people gathered on the Harkers Island shore, looking over the sound, weeping as the smoke rose three miles away. "You go to the Park Service (visitors center), and they have pictures of tu
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