The Ghost Nets site in 1930. Photo courtesy of the Vinalhaven Historical Society. The site was created as made-land, burying the local fringing salt marsh for the extractive quarrying industry. It was then used as a deep water wharf to transport finished granite to East coast cities. The marsh was restored in 1997, as a culmination of Ghost Nets. It continues to be monitored with Wells NERR,* as part of Trigger Point theory as Aesthetic Activism.

"The environment was lost by increments, it can be restored by increments,' Aviva Rahmani 1999 (on the occasion of preparing work for presentation by Wendi Goldsmith, President of the Bioengineering Group (TBG), Salem, MA * at the 1999 "Manufactured Sites," conference at the Harvard School of Design.) "These two panoramas shot by Ben Magro, illustrate changes to the Ghost Nets site from 1997- 2007. Watching these incremental changes over twenty years is what gave rise to Trigger Point Theory,* an approach to environmental restoration based on what was learned from creating and monitoring Ghost Nets." - Aviva Rahmani