To the Editor:
I understand the arguments for replenishment to save property, but what is good for people is not what is good for plovers. As someone who loves LBI, but also spends nearly every day of the summer with piping plovers on Holgate, I would like to explain why this is true.
Piping plovers in New Jersey are a mostly overwash-obligate species. That means that their first choices for nesting locations are areas where the vegetation has been recently scoured by waves that have actively washed over the…
September 14, 2016
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