Cape Cod National Seashore

The National Seashore is expected to have a full complement of lifeguards and other summer employees this year, but it could still face a reduction in year-round staff.

After 40 years, and some 15,000 hours watching the skies, monitoring for dark fins, and rescuing children from riptides, Gordon Miller has become an expert at the art of keeping beachgoers safe. It’s a role that’s sustained and fulfilled him since he arrived on Cape Cod in 1984 at 23 years old.

Intense waves caused a five- to six-foot drop-off from the walking path on the dunes to the beach below. Officials worry that if someone got down onto the beach, they’d have no easy way to get back out.

Using acoustic receivers at Head of the Meadow and Nauset beaches, Bryan Legare of the Center for Coastal Studies is looking at how sharks move in relation to natural features, such as sandbars. Now, the project is adding three more popular beaches.

A coyote bit a child on the north end of Herring Cove Beach on Wednesday, and officials say a history of people feeding coyotes on the beach is almost certainly to blame.

The superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore and other beach managers spoke at Seashore headquarters in Wellfleet Thursday to urge the public to be “shark smart” this summer.

Lifeguards will be restored this summer to two beaches on the Cape Cod National Seashore after they were eliminated last year because of factors related to the pandemic.

Two beaches on the Cape Cod National Seashore will not have lifeguard protection this summer, and money isn’t the issue. Speaking outside park…

Visitors to the Cape Cod National Seashore this summer will likely notice changes at some of the beaches. At Nauset Light in Eastham, there is now a long…