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  • Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21.

    Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21, from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM so seashore staff can create an accessible path in advance of the summer season.

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CFP Action Plan - Education and Outreach

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The park plans to incorporate more climate friendly information in interpretive programs

NPS

Cape Cod National

Seashore can play an

integral role in

communicating about

climate change to a

vast audience.

A better understanding of the challenges and benefits of reducing GHG emissions can motivate staff, visitors, and community members to incorporate climate friendly actions into their own lives. Cape Cod National Seashore recognizes that the greatest potential impact the park can have on mitigating climate change is through public education.

Some Completed Actions

  • Disseminate climate change and climate friendly information to interpretive staff for incorporation into programs.
  • Created demonstration projects and exhibits to convey park sustainability message to visitors.
  • Participated in Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change pilot project scenario planning workshop, as well as the advance planning and refining of the results of the workshop.

Some Planned Actions

  • Incorporate sessions on climate change into new staff training.
  • Continue to create and distribute new and previously produced information on climate change and its effects on national parks in general, and on Cape Cod National Seashore.
  • Integrate Climate Friendly Parks program with school programs using educational kits, wayside exhibits, and posters.
  • Encourage internal and external stakeholders to reduce their carbon footprints using tools like Do Your Part!
  • Create green "infomercials" to play at beginning of films for park visitors.
  • Look for opportunities to host traveling exhibits focusing on the impacts of climate change as well as general awareness about climate change. Focus presentations on climate change priorities and talk about success stories.

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Did You Know?

Marconi Wireless Station, circa 1903

In 1903, Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first transatlantic wireless message from the United States to Great Britain from Cape Cod.