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Is Resurrecting an Island Worth It?
By the 1990s, Poplar Island, a sandy sliver of land in the Chesapeake Bay once boasting more than a thousand acres, was almost completely gone. Today, this island, shaped like an inverted comma, can again be found just off Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a short …