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Wikipedia work
I edited the entry about Long Point, Ontario, on Wikipedia. Most of the changes I made were fixes for grammar and awkward sentence construction, but I also added a
Aerial photo of the eastern tip of Long Point along the Ontario shore of Lake Erie. Photo by Tim Hagen.
quote from a study from the Long Point World Biosphere Reserve organization pointing out the importance of the point to migratory birds.
The entry was last updated in July, but there is a lot more information to be added. It’s more than I can tackle.
Long Point is a sand spit that juts into Lake Erie from the north shore. It’s located directly across the lake from Erie, Pa. The point, the bay and the wetlands around it are environmentally valuable because the point has so far remained largely undeveloped because of its geography. The point is hit hard by gales in the fall, winter and spring, making development a difficult proposition.
I also cleaned up a paragraph dealing with the history about a historic “cut” through the point. A storm cut a channel across the point in the 19th century. I may go back and add more to the entry once I get more comfortable working on Wikipedia. I am still rather unfamiliar with the editing interface.
I chose this entry because I spent a lot of time at the Bay over the years. I hope to be up there in mid-November to spend some time with family, and we’ll no doubt head to Long Point at some point.
Where else would someone want to be in the middle of November, other than at a cold, windswept point in Lake Erie?
An uprooted tree lodged into the sand along the Lake Erie beach of Long Point. Photo by Tim Hagen.
