Steven Fall of Barnegat Light Landscaping and Garden Center has been in town long enough to remember, as a kid, a relative in the Garden Club of Long Beach Island distributing black pine seedlings after the March Storm of 1962. The salt-tolerant trees did shore up the dunes for future years, but with some unintended consequences.

At a recent Barnegat Light Borough Council meeting, the invasive species arose in two topics- one in relation to their overgrowth on the dunes, and another as some…