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USA Today: Sandy’s Wake Leaves Shore Birds in Dire Straits

This article was originally published in USA Today on February 2, 2013. View the original article here. When red knots descend on the beaches of Delaware Bay this spring famished from their marathon flight toward the Canadian Arctic from the tip of South America, the rosy-breasted shorebirds may find slim pickings instead of the feast of horseshoe crab eggs they count on to fuel the rest of their migration. Superstorm Sandy scrubbed away almost all the sand the crabs need to spawn upon. Restoring it in time is a top priority of wildlife groups beginning to repair Sandy's massive damage to dunes, beaches and salt marshes along the Eastern Seaboard that support a diverse population of birds, fish, marine organisms...

New York Times Green Blog: Mending the Bird Preserves Hit by Sandy

This article was originally published in The New York Times Green Blog on January 4, 2013. It was written by Jon Hurdle. View the original article here. Conservationists are warning that swift action is needed to repair mid-Atlantic bird refuges that were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. In a report issued on Thursday, researchers at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences said that beaches should be replenished, nesting islands rebuilt and water-control structures in managed wetlands repaired to recreate the right conditions for threatened or endangered species to breed or migrate during the coming spring and summer. The organizations identified more than 70 sites from Massachusetts to Virginia that need to be restored,...