Hurricane Irene disrupts natural wildlife & habitat

After the recent devastation that hurricane Irene caused on the east coast, people are finally beginning to become aware of how this natural disaster affected wildlife and the overall ecosystem of animals and other biolife.  As naturalist and green groups have finally caught up with the recovery of personal and human tragedy, the next to facilitate is the environment around them.  This exemplified a classic example of nature vs. nature, rather than man vs. nature.  This enormous storm scattered and tossed around objects as large as boats, causing a large amount of pollution and oil, chemical, and sewage spills.

However, one of the biggest problems environmentalists are facing are not the pollution aspect, but the large scheme crisis of complete destruction of forests or reshaping river-bends.  These natural occurring areas have taken hundreds, even thousands of years to create, but this hurricane tore it all up in a measly day.  This affects animals because not they're natural habitat which they've been living at for years is suddenly gone and wiped away.

^Small fish were swept into a flooded basement in Ausable Forks

Story here:
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18370/20110908/irene-s-environmental-legacy-wildlife-habitat-hit-hard-by-storm