Cape Cod National Seashore
The
Cape Cod National Seashore (
CCNS) encompasses on
Cape Cod, in
Massachusetts. CCNS was created on August 7, 1961, by
President John F. Kennedy, when he signed a bill enacting the legislation he first co-sponsored as a Senator a few years prior. It includes ponds, woods and beachfront of the
Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion. The CCNS includes nearly of seashore along the Atlantic-facing eastern shore of Cape Cod, in the towns of
Provincetown,
Truro,
Wellfleet,
Eastham,
Orleans and
Chatham. It is administered by the
National Park Service.
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