Construction work is proceeding for a $3.6 million project to raise and make repairs to the Double Keepers’ Quarters (DKQ) and other structures at Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Ocracoke Light Station. Terra Site Constructors LLC has been contracted to complete the project.
A potent storm rolling up the East Coast has prompted Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial to schedule a delayed opening on Monday.
Sure, the calendar says December, but that didn't stop a green sea turtle from crawling up on a beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina to lay her eggs.
Rather than wait until two houses collapsed into the ocean at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the National Park Service has used $700,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to purchase them and plans to have them removed.