In Georgia we have the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act that protects our salt marshes, which are held in trust by the State for the public. There’s active efforts happening to erode those protections away so that private docks and development can move in… it’s the “hardening” of a coastline that should be resilient and ebb and flow like the tide. If only more of us lived in awareness of that communion with the land and each other as you referenced!
Great piece, John. If you hadn't gotten "lost" you wouldn't have discovered some of that history, right? I didn't know that Oregon has public ownership of beaches. It's crazy that our state, Washington, has this rather nightmarish chopping up of waterfront so that individual developers were - and still are if they ignore codes and the Shoreline Management Act - able to chop up and mangle our shorelines. Thanks for addressing all these important issues, as always.
Another well told story John. My wife and I are in California now, not far from Monterrey, so I am going to see if we can find the “managed retreat” community when we go there.
In Georgia we have the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act that protects our salt marshes, which are held in trust by the State for the public. There’s active efforts happening to erode those protections away so that private docks and development can move in… it’s the “hardening” of a coastline that should be resilient and ebb and flow like the tide. If only more of us lived in awareness of that communion with the land and each other as you referenced!
Thanks, I'm going to look up that act!
I've been to Camas Beach Park. While there we were treated to a visit by a humpback whale making his way south not too far offshore.
The "sounders," the annual gray whale visitors to Saratoga passage, should be here soon to fill up on ghost shrimp on their way to the Bering Sea.
Glad you found some adventures in Oregon, John!
Great piece, John. If you hadn't gotten "lost" you wouldn't have discovered some of that history, right? I didn't know that Oregon has public ownership of beaches. It's crazy that our state, Washington, has this rather nightmarish chopping up of waterfront so that individual developers were - and still are if they ignore codes and the Shoreline Management Act - able to chop up and mangle our shorelines. Thanks for addressing all these important issues, as always.
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Another well told story John. My wife and I are in California now, not far from Monterrey, so I am going to see if we can find the “managed retreat” community when we go there.
Thanks Chuck! It’s about 5 miles north of Monterey.
That last line...! Living on the opposite coast, our issues are much the same. We've wondered, more than once, if we should leave while we can.
Thank you, Elizabeth. Yes, much the same, with added hurricanes on the east coast. We left NJ just before Superstorm Sandy.