How to Use national seashore in a Sentence

national seashore

noun
  • More than 5,000 dairy and beef cattle occupy about a third of the national seashore.
    Matthew Polvorosa Kline, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Home to a Maryland state park and a national seashore, this Atlantic island has plenty of wide-open space to hunt for shells.
    Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 22 May 2021
  • The national seashore was closed to traffic starting at 5 p.m. on Monday.
    Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Lead Recreation Assistant will keep an eye out for trouble in the seas while posting up in the sand at one of the national seashore’s six beaches.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The sprawling Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout national seashores account for nearly half of all nests.
    Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Though no one was injured, debris from the two homes is now scattered up and down the national seashore and will likely require an extensive cleanup process.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022
  • However, experts say tourists lounging on beach towels on the national seashore are not likely to be bitten while wiggling their toes in the sand.
    Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 13 May 2018
  • When the national seashore was designated, in 1962, some ranchers who owned land sold it to the National Park Service, and it was returned to nature.
    Matthew Polvorosa Kline, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Why this is such an intensely personal issue here has a lot to do with the fact that the state is home to two national seashores and more than 300 miles of barrier island beaches.
    Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The flag is bright yellow with an outline of a turtle in black and is flown on days when Kemp’s ridley sea turtle eggs are found according to a Facebook post by the national seashore.
    Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The same could not be said for of the other animals; many horses were discovered dead on the beaches of the national seashore after Dorian’s passing.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • In the early 1970s, the Carnegies sold or deeded most of the island to the federal government, so the National Park Service could preserve the wild coastal forest as a national seashore.
    New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In honor of the first Kemp's ridley turtle nests found at the national seashore last month, the park raised its turtle flag, also known as the arribada flag, which will fly for the remainder of the season.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 3 May 2023
  • The unincorporated village, which is part of the national seashore, has some of the highest erosion rates along the entire North Carolina coast.
    Gareth McGrath, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Park service officials say the new plan, if adopted, will enable them to more effectively manage the ranch lands for the benefit of all the national seashore’s uses.
    Susanne Rust Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The national seashore installed call boxes on six beaches to cover cellular service gaps.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There are 424 units within the the National Park Service, ranging from national battlefields to national seashores.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • If approved, the proposal will turn this national seashore into a national disgrace.
    Yvon Chouinard, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
  • Nonetheless, David Evans, a fourth-generation rancher at Point Reyes, says the national seashore stands as an example of how people, livestock, and wildlife can coexist.
    Matthew Polvorosa Kline, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The report, which was commissioned by an environmental group and is disputed by the ranching industry, is the latest flareup in a decades-long debate over the ranching that occupies more than one-third of the national seashore.
    Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Most importantly, this heavenly slice of land is part of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, our country's first national seashore, established in 1953.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Today, nearly a half-century into its existence, the national seashore is at an existential crossroads.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2022
  • During the nesting season, biological technicians and volunteers patrol the national seashore in search of turtles laying their eggs.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 3 May 2023
  • Residents here made their own agreement with the Department of the Interior in the 1970s to fold the island into the national seashore while continuing to own it privately, adhering to rigorous conservation principles.
    New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Meyer's mega trip includes battlefields and military sites, nature preserves, historical spots, memorials and monuments, scenic roadways, national rivers, national seashores and more.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2017

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