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The following email and pdf document was received today from Chris Soller. The time for participating in the “Visioning Project” has been extended to January 15, 2010. FIA members and others who care about Fire Island’s future are encouraged to click on visionfireisland.com and participate, if you have not already done so.
Jerry:
As we have discussed, I know there have been concerns and questions raised
regarding the Fire Island Community Character/Visioning Project. Attached
is a letter I have written that I hope will lay to rest a number of
questions and concerns raised regarding the project. We are also extending
the deadline to participate in the project to January 15, 2010. I hope
that you and the others members of the Fire Island Association Board of
Directors and Fire Island Community Association leaders would distribute
this letter to your members and members of the various community
associations. Hopefully it will reinforce our desire to work with the Fire
Island communities and to engage Fire Islanders in the issues that we are
all involved with now and in the future.
Jerry, I would like to thank you and all the Board of Directors for your
continued support. Over the next year, as the National Seashore presents
the draft alternatives on the General Management Plan, refines the
alternatives and presents a preferred alternative for public review and
comment, the participation of the FIA and the Communities in this dialogue
will be extremely valuable. We look forward to your continued involvement
in this process. Again, many thanks.
Chris Soller
Superintendent
Fire Island National Seashore
National Park Service
To read Mr. Soller’s letter, click on “more”
read more from "Message from Superintendent Soller"
Patchogue, New York— On September 17, 2009, Fire Island National Seashore
began another season of a long-standing deer immunocontraceptive research
project on Fire Island, to help determine if deer populations on the island
can be kept in check by injecting female deer (does) with a birth control
vaccine.
read more from "Fall Deer Darting Program in Progress"
The following post is by courtesy of the Ocean Beach Association’s “Notes From the Beach”:
Vision Fire Island: Photo Scavenger Hunt [the deadline for submitting photos has been extended to October 16]
Get Involved: New General Management Plan for Fire Island
The National Park Service has begun working on a new General Management Plan (GMP) for Fire Island National Seashore. The current Plan, adopted in 1977, is at best, outdated. Public scoping meetings were conducted in 2006, and foundation workshops have begun. You can sign up for the park’s E-Newsletter to get periodic updates of GMP progress and other current park news. You also can share your ideas and opinions about the future management of the park and its programs as GMP planning continues.
As part of this planning, FINS has created a public participation process called Vision Planning. This process includes a Photo Scavenger Hunt, which is described below. No one knows the joys of Fire Island better than its residents; therefore, we urge you to snap your favorite Fire Island sites, those that you feel show the Fire Island you most cherish and submit them for inclusion in the Scavenger Hunt. Complete directions are posted at: www.visionfireislandd.com
The following NEWSDAY story appeared on July 8.
The new $4.6-million Fire Island ferry terminal will open in Patchogue by Jan. 1, federal officials announced yesterday.
The long-awaited terminal, which has been in the planning stage for years and for which ground was broken in the fall, will replace the old station off West Avenue, officials said. The terminal could open in time for Patchogue’s holiday boat parade, held around Thanksgiving, if all goes well, National Park Service officials said.
read more from "FINS Gets a New Patchogue Terminal"
The following is from Fire Island National Seashore.
For more information go to the Links page and click on Fire Island
National Seashore/newsreleases.
Beach Nourishment Projects To Begin on Fire Island;
Work Expected to be Completed by the end of March 2009
Several beach nourishment projects on Fire Island are scheduled to
begin by late December or early January. The projects, which are
being undertaken by Suffolk County and eleven Fire Island
communities, are expected to be completed by March 31, 2009.
read more from "News From FINS on Community Beach Protection Projects"
ON SPENCER’S POINT
Love for a Barrier Island by the Sea
By Bob Spencer
The ocean has a mystique for millions of people, who are drawn to it for many hidden reasons.
I caught a life-long urge to explore that mystique as a teenager one evening sitting on a beach in Maine staring at the full moon rising out of calm and distant ocean horizon. When I turned 29, I borrowed a dune-full of money and built a small house on the barrier island of Fire Island to espy those moon rises — and occasionally some sunrises. I had connected with something meaningful.
read more from "Love For a Barrier Island by the Sea"
A Reply to FINS
In the Fall 1999 newsletter of Save Our Seashore, Inc., the Superintendent of the Fire Island National Seashore set forth his position on the proposed Fire Island Interim Project, a transitional shore protection effort designed to protect Fire Island beaches until a longer term solution known as the Reformulation Study can be implemented.
In the course of doing so he demonstrated a bias against the project. The Fire Island Association believes the Superintendent’s position would place properties and government infrastructure, both on Fire Island and on the south shore of Long Island, at needless risk in order to effectuate a policy designed to facilitate removal of private development from the barrier island. Supt. Dillon’s statement is attached. His major points are encapsulated below in boldface type, followed by comments from the Fire Island Association.
read more from "1999 — Seashore Opposes Interim Project"
