Pending Disaster
Ecologist Brian McCarty believes that all the debris of war should be cleaned up. According to him, the munitions scattered on the hills and beaches could corrode and poison the soil and surrounding water.
“You don’t manage anything by leaving it alone entirely and not having a connection to it,” McCarty told Smithsonianmag. The cleanup operation on Nomans Land needs to happen before it’s too late. But what do the descendants of the Wampanoag people think?