Post by mbba201 on Feb 28, 2013 17:54:48 GMT -4
By CARL JOHANSEN
February 28, 2013The picture on your Feb. 17 front page spoke volumes about setting a poor example for beach stewardship. When those who profess to be trustees of the beach do not follow the beach protocol — when they are shown walking on the beach grass — we send a wrong message to the public at large. It is not OK to walk on the dunes at any time, especially during times when Mother Nature has affected our beaches in the manner it has.
Those who have not read the signs placed along our beachfront should read what it says. Boy Scout Troop 47 from Sandwich had the wisdom to place a well-thought-out, informational beach poster at Town Neck Beach that gives anyone walking the beach the basic rules that need to be followed about not walking on the dunes. Everyone should read it before going onto the beach.
Everyone knows erosion begins in steps, especially where beach grass is concerned. It is bad enough that the wind and water play a part in this erosion process, but so does man by walking on the grass.
Where is the wisdom from those adults and the photographer in publishing a front-page article that shows this disrespect to our most fragile resource which maintains the protective barrier to our historical downtown area? Where is the human element of caring for this resource being promoted by this picture?
It has been stated that a picture is worth ten thousand words. In this case it is worth ten thousand footsteps. Years of neglect have caught up with us here in Sandwich, and it is not all about losing sand because of the East End jetty. We as a town have disrespected the resource, and it is time we make efforts to turn that around.
Walking on the beach grass destroys the beach grass, and is something that can no longer be tolerated. Just once it would be nice if we all followed and enforced a known process in saving our Town Neck beaches.
We have an opportunity to place beach grass on the two blown-out areas that have invaded the marsh, and that should be done this spring to better reinforce the stability of the dunes and, hopefully, help heal the wounds created by storm surges, especially the most recent ones.
Carl Johansen of Sandwich is a life member of the Massachusetts Beach Buggies Association.
Nice to see a good article in the Paper, Carl, has been around a long Time!
February 28, 2013The picture on your Feb. 17 front page spoke volumes about setting a poor example for beach stewardship. When those who profess to be trustees of the beach do not follow the beach protocol — when they are shown walking on the beach grass — we send a wrong message to the public at large. It is not OK to walk on the dunes at any time, especially during times when Mother Nature has affected our beaches in the manner it has.
Those who have not read the signs placed along our beachfront should read what it says. Boy Scout Troop 47 from Sandwich had the wisdom to place a well-thought-out, informational beach poster at Town Neck Beach that gives anyone walking the beach the basic rules that need to be followed about not walking on the dunes. Everyone should read it before going onto the beach.
Everyone knows erosion begins in steps, especially where beach grass is concerned. It is bad enough that the wind and water play a part in this erosion process, but so does man by walking on the grass.
Where is the wisdom from those adults and the photographer in publishing a front-page article that shows this disrespect to our most fragile resource which maintains the protective barrier to our historical downtown area? Where is the human element of caring for this resource being promoted by this picture?
It has been stated that a picture is worth ten thousand words. In this case it is worth ten thousand footsteps. Years of neglect have caught up with us here in Sandwich, and it is not all about losing sand because of the East End jetty. We as a town have disrespected the resource, and it is time we make efforts to turn that around.
Walking on the beach grass destroys the beach grass, and is something that can no longer be tolerated. Just once it would be nice if we all followed and enforced a known process in saving our Town Neck beaches.
We have an opportunity to place beach grass on the two blown-out areas that have invaded the marsh, and that should be done this spring to better reinforce the stability of the dunes and, hopefully, help heal the wounds created by storm surges, especially the most recent ones.
Carl Johansen of Sandwich is a life member of the Massachusetts Beach Buggies Association.
Nice to see a good article in the Paper, Carl, has been around a long Time!