The Point in Cape Henlopen State Park closed
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Cape Henlopen State Park
Lewes, DE 19958
United States
For the 24th straight year, the Point in Cape Henlopen State Park will be closed to help endangered beachnesters and migratory shorebirds beginning Wednesday, March 1.
The Point encompasses an area of the park where Atlantic Ocean beach meets Delaware Bay shoreline and the dunes in between. The closure has been happening annually since 1993.
According to a Feb. 27 press release from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, bird species helped by the closure include, but are not limited to, red knot, piping plovers, oystercatchers and least terns. The closure is done in partnership with DNREC’s Divisions of Parks & Recreation, Fish & Wildlife and Watershed Stewardship.
The nesting habitat on the ocean side will reopen Sept. 1. The bayside beach will remain closed until Oct. 1 for use by shorebirds migrating south for the winter.
For more information, contact Cape Henlopen State Park at 302-645-8983.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
