b'C H A P T E R E L E V E Nsaw how quickly and effectively the Friends responded to the call for a full company of volunteers for Chatham Water Watchers and Chatham Beach Watchers. That leads him to believe that there will be a lasting role for FCW in joining others to face up to challenges in a one-of-a-kind area where the sands are always shifting, blowing, settling, traveling again, and remaking the FCW- initiated Navigational Chart # 50 E month by month, year by year. Ted Keon concludes:Visions of what Chatham should look like may differ. But how FCW sees the waterways is not inconsistent with how others see them.Were all trying to conserve them, to maintain a safe system, to try to balance different uses.Were in this together. We have to be: none of us wants to see tomorrows problemsthe real threat of deteriorationget the best of this very specialplace.1 The author is grateful to FCW Director Jane Harris for reporting on the complex matters thatfollow.2 Angered citizens established the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge on 7,410 acres andturned it over to U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service to administer. See www.greatswatnp.org.'