When Hurricane Sandy barreled into New Jersey a year ago, it left a 22-mile trail of debris across the tidal marshes and woodlands of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge along the Jersey Shore.
Roofs, docks, boats, household chemicals, and trash were carried by an eight-foot surge into parts of the 47,000-acre wildlife habitat, stretching through Atlantic, Ocean, and Burlington Counties.
Wildlife Drive, an eight-mile stretch of road through the refuge, was heavily damaged and shut down. Large sections of it were washed away in more than a dozen places.
"It looked like we'd never recover," said Mary Harper, a Margate resident and secretary of the Friends of Forsythe, a nonprofit refuge support group. "I went out there a few days after the storm and it was really eerie, like the Twilight Zone - no birds, no animals, nothing."
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Roofs, docks, boats, household chemicals, and trash were carried by an eight-foot surge into parts of the 47,000-acre wildlife habitat, stretching through Atlantic, Ocean, and Burlington Counties.
Wildlife Drive, an eight-mile stretch of road through the refuge, was heavily damaged and shut down. Large sections of it were washed away in more than a dozen places.
"It looked like we'd never recover," said Mary Harper, a Margate resident and secretary of the Friends of Forsythe, a nonprofit refuge support group. "I went out there a few days after the storm and it was really eerie, like the Twilight Zone - no birds, no animals, nothing."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20131129_Forsythe_National_Wildlife_Refuge_recovering_from_Sandy.html#uDpGUsUVc6bRtoCQ.99