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Meet Long Island’s Sea Turtles

Sea turtles are large turtles that inhabit warm waters of our planet’s oceans, bays and estuaries. They are similar to their terrestrial (land) cousins, …

The Pine Barrens: How Trees Protect Our Water

by Katie Muether Brown

Save The Great South Bay warmly welcomes guest blogger, Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society on how our …

The Menhaden Project

by Save The Great South Bay

Menhaden, aka Bunker, are oftentimes referred to as the “most important fish in the ocean”. They play a key role in the marine ecosystem …

Hunt for the American Chestnut Challenge

by Niko Nantsis

For thousands of years after the last glacial period, the American Chestnut, Castanea Dentata, dominated the eastern Deciduous Forests of the eastern United States, …

Sprouts with Historic Roots

by Frank Piccininni

Humble beginnings with Nikolaos Nantsis, James Bertsch, Stephen Borghardt, Rob Vasiluth, Marshall Brown, et al. These tiny sprouts are those of Long Island wild type American Chestnut growing …

by Marshall Brown

2019 was a banner year for Save the Great South Bay. All that we had planned for 2020 is gone, so what do we do as an org, as neighbors, and citizens? What will emerge from all these profound changes? Let's be "yardbound" and have an invasive and non-native free "Bay Friendly Yard" for you and your family.

Long Island PFAS Update

by Michael Beckerich

At the risk of having some fun with a serious subject… the recent town hall style meeting hosted at the Nassau County Bar Association …

STGSB Podcast Episode 7: What is Prosocial?

by Marshall Brown

On this episode of Water Matters, documentary filmmaker Alan Honick & Dr. Kristin Perret discuss how prosocial interventions can help communities come to a …

STGSB Podcast Episode 6: Sewer Czar

by Marshall Brown

Suffolk County and New York State recognize the pressing need to address significant nitrogen levels in our local waterways and groundwater caused in part …