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A truly golden anniversary (Credit: Martin Burke) Thursday, April 22, was the 51st anniversary of Earth Day. Looking back is always a way of seeing how far we’ve come, and how much further we have to go.
It’s striking to see how the political landscape has changed like day and night. Fifty years ago both political parties were involved in a push to make conservation a large plank in their platforms for progress.
Republican Mayor of New York John Lindsay created the first municipal Environmental Protection Administration in 1968. But an even more historic moment came two years later when Republican President Richard Nixon established the federal Environmental Protection Agency and endorsed and signed the Clean Air Act.
Access to shoreline restrictions under fire Early morning at Bootleggers Alley. (Credit: Martin Burke)
Don’t blame the Shoreline Access Committee; blame the mandate with which it was charged, resulting in recommendations that no one seems to like, all involved agreed.
Problems at Bootleggers Alley last summer focused the Town Board on the effort to look at all shoreline access points with an eye to controlling uses.
Two major issues emerged for the Shoreline Access task force: parking and signage.
Neither, it appears, will satisfy needs at Bootleggers, where crowds of nonresidents fished and camped last summer, using the dunes as toilets. Residents complained they left garbage in the area and often infringed on private properties. Temporary installation of a Port-A-Potty did little to alleviate the problems.