by Jon Lackman | 10 October 2006 | Conservation
Robert G. Calkins, emeritus professor at Cornell, writes in The Wall Street Journal: “A controversial project is currently under way to restore the Mont, now almost reunited to the mainland by accumulated silt, to its island status. This is ironic: The Mont originally was not an island at all, but merely a granite outcropping, rising above a forest swept away in a ninth-century storm.”
