This Park’s Personality: Jordan Raphael and the Quest to Preserve the Sunken Forest

Remillard J and Gottschalk Druschke C. 2015. This Park’s Personality: Jordan Raphael and the Quest to Preserve the Sunken Forest

Few people have studied the Sunken Forest as closely as Jordan Raphael. For the last seven years, his quest has been to discover what is happening to all of the ancient hollies here. First established as a preserve in 1960, Sunken Forest, which is part of Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), was once about one-and-a-half times the size of Ellis Island. Lately, Jordan says, it’s shrinking.

Type

Resource Brief

Authors

Remillard, Jamie; Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline

Date of Issue

2015-07

Units

FIIS , NCBN

Keywords

American holly, FIIS, Fire Island National Seashore, Hurricane Sandy, NCBN, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, Sunken Forest

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