bleeding programmes and actually when i was 16 i started working as a park ranger. i have working on the seashore now for over ten years. there was this really significant grassroots effort that dates back to the 1930s to actually create a seashore, seashore, here at fire island. part of that was actually just an attempt to prevent robert moses and new york state from constructing a highway across the length of fire island. robert moses was a polarising urban planner in new york city. he was instrumental in the rapid construction of highways after the great depression. because the island is so narrow, a road across it would have completely reshaped the landscape, threatening you take habitats like the sunken forest, and in order to protect these towns, each one with our own belly unique history and culture, they turned fire island into a national park. so that future generations could come here and enjoy it for themselves. come here and en'oy it for themselves._