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and Piping plovers (special concern) are worthy of protection 

 (by posting signs etc.). A colony of almost 100 Least terns 

 on the inlet beach in 1979 apparently had almost no nesting 

 success, and this might have been the result of people who 

 did not realize they were walking through a nesting colony. 



The Painted bunting, which is rapidly losing nesting 

 habitat in the state, ks a species for which habitat 

 maintenance/ improvement along the spoil site shrub thickets 

 would be appropriate. 



5) At current rates of visitation (considering kinds of 

 visitation and the seasons of visitation), people do not 

 detract greatly from the primary values of the domplex. This 

 will probably continue to be true as long as permanent 

 structures do not exist in the complex. 



