Jul 20, 2022by: Larry Dorminy No Comments

July OBX Park News – Your Official Sneak Peek: Pathways to Your National Parks!

Outer Banks Forever is proud to support our Outer Banks national parks in a variety of ways — large and small.

Your Official Sneak Peek:
Pathways to Your National Parks!

Outer Banks Forever is proud to support our Outer Banks national parks in a variety of ways — large and small. Today, we’re excited to share more with you about our largest undertaking to date, our Pathways to Your National Parks project!

The first stage of this project will allow our parks to build a new paved, multi-use path on the grounds of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse that will better connect our community and our parks.

Check out this video courtesy of our friends at REAL Watersports to learn more about this exciting project and be on the lookout for more details in the coming weeks!

See you in our parks,

Director, Outer Banks Forever

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Meet Your Ranger: Isabel Gonzalez

We’d like you introduce you to Isabel Gonzalez,Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) Intern atFort Raleigh National Historic Site. She spends her workdays sharing the stories of the Freedmen’s Colony, the Carolina Algonquian peoples, and European settlers on Roanoke Island, swearing in new Junior Rangers, designing new educational wayside signs, and helping park visitors have the best experience possible.

When she’s not working, you can find Isabel listening to music, exploring the outdoors, baking, and sewing!

Meet Isabel

Partner Spotlight: Swells’a Brewing Beer Company

We’re excited to introduce you to our friends at Swells’a Brewing!

Sam Harriss and her co-owners opened their beautiful brewery in Kill Devil Hills with a passion for brewing beer and a commitment to protecting the environment. We’re grateful they’ve chosen to partner with us through their 1% For the Planet membership. Each year, they will donate 1% of their profits directly to us to help us protect and enhance our Outer Banks national parks.

Check out our Partner Spotlight to hear from Sam about how Swells’a Brewing got started and what its unique name means!

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All About Sea Turtles: Sea Turtle Hatchlings

Our Ask A BioTech series continues this month with your most asked questions about sea turtle hatchlings!

Supervisory Biological Technician Paul Doshkov gives us a look at the early lives of these favorite island visitors, including how they find their way to the ocean, what they eat, and the threats they face. (Hint: you can help prevent some of these!)

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There’s Still Time to Adopt Your Sea Turtle Nest!

Thank you to everyone who has adopted a sea turtle nest this summer!

Biological technicians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore are tracking 260 nests (and counting) so far this season, a significant increase in nests from last year.

Through our Adopt A Sea Turtle Nest program, you can symbolically adopt an active sea turtle nest at the Seashore and receive an official adoption certificate and information about your specific nest when it hatches.

We expect the first nests to start hatching in the next few weeks and we currently have 151 nests that have been adopted. Our goal is to have 200 nests adopted by the end of August when we’ll close adoptions for the season — we’re almost there!

Adopt Your Nest Today

Please note: Nature belongs to all of us. No individual or group that participates in this program may claim ownership of a sea turtle nest, eggs, or hatchlings. For the safety of the sea turtles, your exact nest location will not be shared until after it has hatched.