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Article: Nantucket's green grazers.
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Thirty miles off the coast of Massachusetts is a modest little island with a talent for attracting the glitterati. Once a seafaring capital that prospered by strip-mining the global whale community, the island today is an ultra-chic summer destination for the affluent, with private jets lining the airport tarmac and one-bedroom shacks selling for half a million dollars.
Though the island's economy is thriving, its unique environment is threatened. "Eighty percent of the coastal heath and sandplain grassland left in the world is on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, and it's endangered" explains Bruce Perry, property manager for the 2,200 acres held by the Nantucket ...