Coskata-Coatue-Haulover Wildlife Refuge* juts out into the Atlantic, wrapping back around as the protective barrier beach for Nantucket Harbor. Its 1,452 acres form a large wildlife refuge system, including The Trustees Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge (916 acres); The Haulover (104 acres) and Coatue Wildlife Refuge (390 acres), both held by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF); and the Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge at Great Point (42 acres), which is owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It is a beautiful but vulnerable landscape, and one of Nantucket’s most exposed beaches to sea level rise, storm flooding and accelerating erosion from climate change.
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* While not an actual place name, for the purposes of this program, Trustees and NCF are using this name to indicate their combined refuge properties (as outlined above.)