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Pilot Island lighthouse
Pilot Island lighthouse sits, as you might expect, on Pilot Island in Ports de Mort or Death's Door, the passage between Washington Island and the tip of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Since the lighthouse was decommissioned, it has been taken over by the cormorants who have, quite literally, crapped the island into oblivion, the acidity of their guano killing nearly all of the vegetation on the island. The Friends of Plum and Pilot Island arranged to get a new roof on the lighthouse a few years ago and are hoping to be able to preserve the lighthouse. The island is presently a nature preserve under the control of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Pilot Island lighthouse
Pilot Island lighthouse sits, as you might expect, on Pilot Island in Ports de Mort or Death's Door, the passage between Washington Island and the tip of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Since the lighthouse was decommissioned, it has been taken over by the cormorants who have, quite literally, crapped the island into oblivion, the acidity of their guano killing nearly all of the vegetation on the island. The Friends of Plum and Pilot Island arranged to get a new roof on the lighthouse a few years ago and are hoping to be able to preserve the lighthouse. The island is presently a nature preserve under the control of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.