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I am a chiropractor, clinical neurologist, mom, environmentalist and an educator.
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Surfrider Foundation Chapter News, March/April 2008 by Ed Mazzarella
ELI Chapter
"Free the Montauk 8" was the theme at a recent Eastern Long Island Chapter fundraiser. The Montauk 8 are eight surfers who received tickets for surfing at Montauk Point Sate Park. The goal of the chapter's campaign is to make surfing legal at the Point and to present a successful defense in court for the eight surfers who have been cited.
The chapter is also forging ahead with their campaign to move the Montak Lighthouse. Chapter leaders met with local elected officials in an effort to have them reconsider their position on a rock revetment at the base of the Lighthouse. The chapter maintains that moving the Lighthouse is the best solution."
This ticketing surfers is ridiculous! Aside from that- haven't the Long Islanders and N.Y.State government officials grapsed onto this new fangled "Green Concept" ? Everyone else seems to be getting it... I LOVE the lighthouse! I have great memories there myself, however, rocking up more seawalls just isn't green. It is NOT in the best interest of the natural environment of Montauk's coastline.
My aunt and uncle were among the first year long residents on Culloden Shores when they built their home in the early 60's. Soundview Drive was a sand/dirt road and electricity needed to be run. There was nothing but beach plums, wild blueberry bushes and other brush out as far as their property. There was one other house if I remember correctly. I spent months during the summers through the early 90's learning about Mother Nature from my Aunt and watching as the seawalls built by neighbors changed the coastline in a very destructive manner. It has been terrible witnessing the erosion caused by the seawalls as development ravaged the shoreline.
Aren't the Army Corps of Engineers - well they are actually engineers, right? Aren't engineers supposed to be these really smart guys? It appears on so many levels that building this seawall at the Point- maybe not the best choice... so what's up with that, Smart Guys? Is smart just finding a solution within your area of "building expertise" or is smart knowing what the right thing is overall and then doing it, - even it means doing nothing?
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