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State of Georgia Department of Natural Resources employee Stanley Walker wipes his face while maintaining the trash dump on Sapelo Island, Ga. State employees and residents must haul their trash to the dump and maintain the site. Property owners are facing higher taxes, and fees from the county threatening an already fragile Geechee-Gullah community of Hog Hammock. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)

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State of Georgia Department of Natural Resources employee Stanley Walker wipes his face while maintaining the trash dump on Sapelo Island, Ga. State employees and residents must haul their trash to the dump and maintain the site. Property owners are facing higher taxes, and fees from the county threatening an already fragile Geechee-Gullah community of Hog Hammock. (Stephen Morton for The New York Times)