Five Long Island places of unspoiled nature
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | With a diversity of habitats that includes coastal oak forests, salt marsh shorelines, grasslands and fresh water wetlands, Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island is home to a variety of plant, animal and bird species. (May 16, 2012)
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Map: 42 wild places on LI
It's easy to forget you're not far from the dense suburban crush of Long Island when you're standing amid 40-foot-high sand dunes covered with flowering beach plum plants and pitch pines, listening to mockingbirds and catbirds trilling in a joyful chorus over a bass line provided by crashing surf, and there's not a man-made structure for miles.
That's the whole point of the aforementioned...
