What has happened to Jamesí Island in Chesapeake Bay?
by Television Trust for the Environment
on 01-01-1970

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Zoe Johnson is planning sea level rise response strategies for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She visits Jamesí island with Court Stevenson and is shocked at the scale of erosion. It is difficult to imagine that the island had been host to a number of houses, a school, a store, roads, farms and is now basically abandoned.

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