Activists seek to preserve Plum Island's beauty
Quick ReadPlans to shut down the Plum Island Animal Disease Center have shone a new spotlight on the natural splendors of this 840-acre island.
Photo credit: Doug Kuntz | Plum Island is seen in an aerial photo on May 20, 2010.
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Plum Island today
Plum Island, Photos from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
More than 50 years of isolation has rendered Plum Island a somewhat sinister place in the public mind, the site of shadowy government experiments cut off from the North Fork by the churning waters of Plum Gut.
But plans to shut down the Plum Island Animal Disease Center have shone a new spotlight on the natural splendors of this 840-acre island, which may be sold by the federal government...
