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Currently, several homeowners of the Lookout Point Association are seeking permits to cut a channel through the spit at Ellisville. They claim that this will alleviate beach erosion and protect

in the marsh daily during season, and small numbers of Great Blue Herons can be found throughout the winter. Black Beach is the northern barrier beach spit that separates Great Sippewissett Marsh from Buzzards

Cod. It is composed of a patchwork of dune and beach habitats. At the western end, the island begins with a spit of bare sand that grades abruptly to a beach grass field after only 65 to 100 feet

, drowned river valley salt marshes, back barrier slat marshes, barrier spits, and intertidal mudflats. These habitats support numerous state, federal, and globally rare, threatened, and endangered species

combined with typical grasses on coastal mudflats. Most of the shore is privately owned and heavily developed. A long sandy spit runs west into the Cole River from Gardner's Neck and contains a beach. Huge

the tidal ponds is 823 acres. Salt marsh, 1,558 acres collectively, borders all rivers and most of the ponds. The Barneys Joy and Little Beach sand spits form the "Allens Pond Complex" and both contain