A Living Landscape Practice
Fire Island Wild
Fire Island Wild is both a philosophy and a working landscape practice rooted in the living systems of Fire Island.
It is how I read the land—through plants, sand, wind, and water—and shape design in response to those forces, rather than against them.
This work is built through long-term observation and practice—across dunes, meadows, wetlands, forest edges, and bay shoreline—where each condition reveals how the island forms, shifts, and sustains itself.
Land Equity
I approach land not as property to be controlled, but as part of a continuous coastal system.
Every garden, path, dune, and forest edge participates in the same field—wind, sand movement, water flow, vegetation, and wildlife.
On a barrier island, land equity is not created by division, but by continuity.
Living Boundaries
Conventional property lines—fences, walls, and hard edges—fragment the landscape and interrupt ecological systems.
I approach boundaries differently.
Living Boundaries are layered plant systems that define space while remaining part of the larger coastal ecology—providing privacy, buffering wind, supporting habitat, and maintaining continuity across properties.
Rather than separating land, they integrate it—strengthening both the landscape and the community over time.
My Offerings
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Site-specific landscape plans rooted in Fire Island’s ecological systems.
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Dune, meadow, wetland, and maritime forest planting designed for coastal resilience.
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Vegetation-based privacy and property edge solutions.
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Design strategies that work with wind exposure, water table, and sand movement.
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Long-term care and adaptive management of evolving landscapes.