The effects of flooding from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 wreaked havoc on Long Beach Island and parts of the mainland years after the storm dissipated and became etched into the archives of meteorological history in Southern Ocean County.
Case in point: the pine engraver beetle. Not long after the flood waters subsided, the brownish insect took up residence within Japanese black pines on LBI – a non-native but suitable tree with a high tolerance for sandy, salty soils and salt spray.
“When Sandy stormed through our area, all that saltwater stressed out the trees, especially the Japanese pines,” said…
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