The failure of the dam at West Brook has created a wonderful opportunity to restore habitat in an area that has been under water for well over 100 years at The Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Category: Advocacy
53 results foundCoffee With The Supervisor: Native Plantings, Methoprene
This week, Ed Romaine's guest is Marshall Brown. Executive Director of Save The Great South Bay. Together they discuss Native Plantings, invasives, and methoprene.
SGSB Sticker Program Launched For SGSB. Order Your Free Stickers Here!
Save The Great South Bay recently launched a free sticker program so that we can continue to build local awareness. Whether you own a …
Save The Great South Bay Window Stickers Now Available!
It is with great pleasure I can tell you that this sticker program is now EXPLODING all over Long Island! The idea is simple. …
Massapequa Creek Defenders: Preserving Their Preserve
It was a surprisingly wet Saturday in Massapequa for its first Creek Defender Day May 4th, this Saturday. The spring has been a soggy …
Bayshore Creek Defender Day: Joining Forces For The Penataquit
Some 40 hearty souls came out on Saturday May 4th to help clean up The Penataquit. Thanks to Seatuck, The First Baptist Church, The Bayshore Interact Club, Keep Islip Clean, The Bayshore Beautification Society and the local YMCA, the creek is starting to get the attention it deserves.
A Passion For The Bay (Via Suffolk County News)
Marshall Brown of Sayville grew up within a block of The Great South Bay. He's come home, and his mission is to save it.
Attention Bayport! Volunteer To Pitch In With Your Creek Defender Bob Draffin Today!
Bob Draffin, President of The Bayport Civic Association and now President of The Sayville Rotary Club, is now Bayport’s Creek Defender! In the video …
The Madness of Methoprene
Even if the real reason was not disease control (it isnt), but nuisance spraying (it is), killing the creatures that eat mosquitoes along with the mosquitoes doesn't work. Its an expensive and destructive fools game, yet our county legislature continues to want to play it.
Introducing The South Shore Estuary Reserve
The South Shore Estuary Reserve is 306 square miles and is composed of all the South Shore bays and their watershed. Jamaica Bay, The Great South Bay, Moriches Bay and Shinnecock Bay are the four largest of the bays within it.
A Green New Deal For The South Shore and The Great South Bay
If we are to save The Great South Bay, it will require that each community along The South Shore mobilizes around clean ups, native plantings, bay friendly native yards that are fertilizer and pesticide free, that all constituencies are actively involved. We cant wait for help from above. Its up to us. That's OUR Green New Deal.
Rising Tides and a Dying Bay
Jack Bonner, student at Loyola in Maryland, and from East Islip, submitted his research paper on the bay he grew up with. He discusses its problems and prospects.