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We’ll get started about 11:30 a.m. at the Pineville Volunteer Fire Department with some oyster stew followed by a fish fry.
Afterwards, we’ll hear from some guest speakers, including Karren Brown, who is the new superintendent at Cape Lookout National Seashore. By then, the National Park Service should have decided on an alternative for the park’s management plan, and Karren should be able to tell us what will happen to the fish camp at Great Island and if any development is planned for the south end.
We’ll also elect a board of directors for 1999. Door prizes will be given out, and generator raffle tickets will be available.
Come break bread with us and swap a few fishing tales.
See the Winter 98 Newsletter for more......
Results of 1999 Meeting Announced: Great Island Camp to Stay Put! The National Park Service won’t build a new fishing camp near the lighthouse at Cape Lookout National Seashore but will require that the current cabins at Great Island be replaced with modern structures.
Karren Brown, the superintendent of Cape Lookout, made the announcement Feb. 27 at the DIFF Club’s Annual Meeting in Pineville.
The new cabins will have to meet current building and sanitary codes, Brown said, and will be built in phases over 5 years. The Park Service also will require that the current cabins be replaced with duplexes similar to the ones the Park Service built on neighboring Portsmouth Island, which is also part of the national seashore. Though the new camp will have the same number of beds as the current cabins, the camp’s size will be reduced to 50 acres from the present 200 acres.
The concessionaire who will run the camp will be required to build the cabins, Brown explained. The new contract, she said, won’t be ready for bids until 2001 at the earliest.
Brown also said a the ferry from Davis will continue to provide access to the Great Island camp. No ferry service will be provided from the Park Service headquarters on Harker’s Island.
The Parks Service will hold public meeting on this latest addition to the park’s management plan in March or April, Brown said.
The announcement ends a year-long study of what to do with the fishing camp on Davis Island. The Park Service looked at various alternatives including replacing the current camp with a new camp near the lighthouse, replacing the cabins at the Great Island camp and building a camp at each location.
The DIFF Club, as did the majority of people who attended two public meetings last year, opposed any construction near the lighthouse.
"I hope everyone will be happy," Brown said. "People wanted us to leave the banks alone, and we listened.
The DIFF Board of Directors voted last year to commission
B.K. Barringer, a registered engineer and a board member, to draw up a
site plan for the new camp. Brown said the Park Service would welcome the
club’s ideas.
