Massachusetts Town Pushes Fourth of July Fireworks to September to Protect ‘Endangered’ Birds

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Massachusetts Town Pushes Fourth of July Fireworks to September to Protect ‘Endangered’ Birds

Penny Starr 30 Jun 2022

Environmental regulations have forced the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, to delay its Fourth of July fireworks display for months. The regulations that forced the shutdown of the holiday celebration are designed to protect birds that are allegedly endangered and need protection.

“Despite exhaustive efforts by many,” the firework display will not take place until September, the Hingham Lions Club, which organizes the annual event, announced earlier this month.

The Patriot Ledger reported on the event, which would have included fireworks, live music, and food trucks:

    The fireworks show in Hingham Harbor was set to return this year after a three-year hiatus caused by a lack of volunteers, not enough money and the coronavirus pandemic. The fireworks were scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday, July 1, at Button Island, which is a small island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

    According to the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s website, some of the Harbor Islands, including Button Island, are home to birds that are federally protected. Barnstable announced last month it, too, has postponed its Fourth of July fireworks to Labor Day weekend because of nesting endangered birds, including piping plovers and least terns.

Audubon Florida posted an article about how fireworks “scare birds to death” and that volunteers will be “out in full force” to make sure people aren’t harming birds.

“These important ambassadors for nature help coastal visitors learn about the birds to better understand what is happening inside posted areas,” the article said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/30/massachusetts-town-pushes-fourth-of-july-fireworks-to-september-to-protect-endangered-birds/

[The_Reader_David]

Well, they could push them to November in solidarity with the folks still subject to the British Crown:  Remember, remember the Fifth of November! Gunpowder! Treason! and Plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!

(The English speaking peoples are an odd lot: we all let off fireworks to commemorate acts of treason against the British Crown.  We Americans one that succeeded, those still subject to the Crown one which failed.)

[PeteS in CA]

Is there actual evidence that past July 4th fireworks disrupted breeding and nesting? Or is that a pretext for shutting down a Patriotic celebration?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Hingham is a less woke town ... home to upper working class college educated lace-curtain Irish Americans.  This shutdown sounds like the state or the Feds, not the town.

Thank you, Ted Kennedy, for giving the US National Park Service dominion over the Boston Harbor Islands.

Piping Plovers strike again!

Those little b@$t@rd$ are shutting down more public beaches every year.

Does that mean all the wind turbines around Boston Harbor will need to be stopped until the Piping Plovers are done nesting?