BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Katie Hojnacki, a biologist with the Parker River National Wildlife Refugue, stands on a boardwalk near parking lot 7 on Plum Island. The wooden boards covered by yellow tape at left blocks where the stairway was to be beach before March storms washed them away.

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