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Long Beach West Restoration Groups Receive Coastal Partnership Award
Representatives from federal agencies highlighted the importance of the restoration project for protecting Long Beach West as a bird sanctuary.
The role of Long Beach West as a nature sanctuary for shorebirds, which of a town task force earlier this year, was the focus of a federal environmental award presented to local groups in this week.
The Connecticut Post reported that officials from the U.S. Department of the Interior presented the Coastal America Partnership Award to a dozen local and state agencies and private organizations comprising the Long Beach West restoration team for their volunteer work removing a cluster of derelict beach houses, outbuildings, docks and mounds of trash.
Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Interior Department noted that the project would help preserve Long Beach West as a nesting area for piping plovers and other kinds of shorebirds.