As Hurricane Irene tracked from the Carolinas to the Canadian border in August 2011, coverage in the media offered words and pictures focused on flooded towns, wind-battered beaches and harried, sometimes heroic public officials striving to do their best in an emergency. Completely unnoticed among the arresting visuals, however, were the decades of effort by the conservation heroes who have worked up and down the East Coast to minimize storm damage and loss of life.
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