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Environment
An island rebornPublished 04/26/08
POPLAR ISLAND - Once upon a time, Poplar Island was more than 1,100 acres and supported farms, homes and even a sawmill and a school. Later, it was a haven for hunters and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman used the island as a retreat. 
Photo by Pamela Wood — The Capital
David Bibo of the Maryland Port Administration points out the location of Poplar island on a map inside a trailer on the island. Once more than 1,100 acres, the island had washed away to a few tiny dots in the bay when construction began in 1998. BELOW: The Chesapeake Bay’s Poplar Island is being restored using material dredged from the bay’s shipping channels. This area eventually will become a wetland.
But over the years, the Chesapeake's winds and waves ate away at the island at a rate of 13 feet per year and it eroded into almost nothing. By the late 1990s, the once-vibrant island was just three little dots in the Chesapeake Bay, totaling less than 3 acres.
Poplar Island had almost disappeared. Then officials hit upon an idea that they say is a perfect solution: use...
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