Fox Island loses battle with a rising Bay (2019)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced the closure of its beloved education center on Fox Island, as rising water has eroded the land and threatened the center itself. Bay Journal reporter Jeremy Cox joined one of the last student groups to visit the island in October 2019.
I took student groups out there at least 15 times over my teaching career. It was a very special and unique place that I will never forget.
My High School went there a few times for a few nights back in the early 90's. At most we had 35 kids, it was an alternative High School for kids with drug and alcohol problems. I am very grateful for the experience, it was always amazing!!!
What a beautiful place! My heart is breaking!
It's sad to see another Bay island like this go. I took a school trip to Port Isobel, another island not too far away, and it was striking to see how close the water is to swallowing the island. Let's hope climate change and erosion doesn't take away more islands like this
Climate change had nothing to do with the loss of the island. The islands in this story was a sand bar and marsh (that's why there was a hunting lodge there) that is now sinking back into the bay like they have done forever. I lived on the Bay for 50 years and the same bulkheads and piers are not underwater. Nothing has changed. The ice age they were predicting in the 70's didn't come and the end of the world they have been predicting that was going to happen every 7 to 10 years for decades due to "global warming" or "climate change" hasn't either.
@@finscreenname Totally agree.
The islands are sinking much faster than the inch or two of ocean levels that have risen in a century.
@@finscreenname Bulkheads and piers are not natural. What makes you think that 150 years is a normal timeframe for islands that have been around for centuries upon centuries to wither away so rapidly? There's more at play than what the eye can see.
@@ECsponger2 These are sandbars barley above sea level. In the 1970's on Kent Island every time a storm came through parts of the island would disappear. Climate change had nothing to do with it but I will give you that maybe some environmental things may have helped or hindered the island staying above water. Like silt from the rivers, river water usage, dredged shipping channels, water traffic, Bay issues..... but the seas didnt rise no more than the 1 to 2 mm they have been since we have been keeping records.
rising water or erosion ? the islands have been sinking in the bay for 150 yrs
There has been ZERO rising waters.