We need your help today! Piping Plovers and other endangered birds on Long Island's south shore.
Recently, the United States Army Corp of Engineers released the Draft Reevaluation Report and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, NY, Coastal Storm Risk Management Project (FIMP), a project to identify, evaluate, and recommend long-term solutions for hurricane and storm damage reduction for homes and businesses within the floodplain extending along 83-miles of ocean and bay shorelines from Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point. This important project will undoubtedly reshape a significant portion of Long Island’s south shore and the important habitat for threatened and endangered species it supports.
With your help now, we can make sure that the proposed Fire Island to Montauk Point Coastal Storm Risk Management Project adequately assesses and protects important shoreline habitats for breeding costal birds like the Piping Plovers.
Comments on this plan are due Wednesday October 19, 2016, so please stand send your letter today! If you have a personal affinity with the Long Island coast and our endangered plover population, please customize these comments to include your personal story.
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