Regional Approach Needed to Manage Sheltered Coasts
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October 12 -- Owners of property bordering sheltered coasts, such as those along bays and estuaries, often reinforce their shoreline with bulkheads and other structures to prevent erosion, but these constructions can alter the surrounding ecosystem. A new National Research Council report recommends that decision-makers take a regional approach to assess wider environmental impacts before permitting structures to be built on sheltered shorelines, and that alternative erosion-control methods, such as planting of marshes, be given greater consideration.
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