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.
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.
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Save The Great South Bay encourages all local residents eligible for a sewer hook up (the red zones on the map ) to vote …
Attention Great River residents! You can help your community, help The Great South Bay, and help lead The South Shore to a better future by voting YES January 22nd on the sewering ballot. The money is there to spend from federal Sandy Relief funds, but this is our one chance. Cesspools are destroying the bay. Other communities will have their votes coming up. Let's start with a YES to a healthy bay and to a more vibrant South Shore!
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Suffolk County Legislature once again approved the use of Methoprene spray for mosquito control, with regular …
Our Facebook Group has some interesting demographics, as per Facebook itself -- age, gender, location, and frequency of posting. All this data matters as we continue to pivot away from Facebook as the groups primary home, and move to our website, where we can drive action, control our content, and reach a broader audience.
What will it take for Long Island to have a sensible development strategy given the inevitability of future storms and sea level rise? Six years after Sandy, its business as usual, building right up to the shore. Some developers are planning for the inevitable, to be sure, but the overall effort is scant.
Methoprene is a growth inhibitor used to combat mosquitoes. It is in the process of being banned in a number of states and jurisdictions because it kills not only mosquitoes, but other related insects and arthropods -- crabs, lobsters. Deforming mosquito larvae chemically damages marsh ecosystems. Suffolk County must ban spraying it.
Save The Great South Bay is establishing a newsroom, a team of citizen-journalists and guest posters who will cover all the issues we …
I stumbled on this GEM of a Video produced by Newsday in the 60’s. A time where fish and clams and oysters were so …
The North Fork Preserve, a 173 acre park in Eastern Suffolk, is being damaged by an ill advised public works project involving heavy equipment and multiple excavations in marshland disturbing rare habitat.
