Local officials want court order suspending dune restoration on Fire Island lifted

Local officials Wednesday blasted a federal judge's decision to suspend a Fire Island dune restoration project to protect endangered birds. U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein last week ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to delay the project's first two phases to protect piping plover breeding grounds at Suffolk County's Smith Point County Park and Fire Island Lighthouse Beach.... Local officials Wednesday blasted a federal judge's decision to suspend a Fire Island dune restoration project to protect endangered birds.

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