As I reported a while ago I have visited the site (across from a white cottage) and found that this was brush cutting along the old railroad bed. Most could have been cut with long handle lopping shears; maximum tree size was 4" diameter and was ax hacked. There is evidence of prior brush cutting some years ago. Almost all of the old railroad bed in this area is kept free of brush and it appeared to me that this periodic brush clearing has been going on since the bed was abandoned by the railroad.
While I support the objectives of the Shoreline Protection Act, this issue has been overblown.
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