by Marshall Brown | Jan 17, 2018 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards
Hiring a landscaper for 2018? For the sake of our bays and our drinking water, make sure they are being ‘green’ about it. Ask them to use a mulching mower so that the grass clippings (or the leaves in the fall) can feed your lawn. That is the best food...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 10, 2017 | Advocacy, Pesticides
Yes, Vector Control is back, having had their funding renewed by The Suffolk County Legislature. Â So these next three days, as will be the case every two weeks throughout the summer, the copters will be flying again. Â We can only hope for the sake of our marshes,...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 10, 2017 | Advocacy, Pesticides
Yes, Vector Control is back, having had their funding renewed by The Suffolk County Legislature. Â So these next three days, as will be the case every two weeks throughout the summer, the copters will be flying again. Â We can only hope for the sake of our marshes,...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 28, 2017 | Advocacy, Pesticides
It’s time to trash our marshes again: Suffolk County has had a decades long program of spraying for mosquitoes around our marshes. Â Â We still have a lot of mosquitoes, and a lot of dying marshes. Â When you take out a key element of the food chain —...
by Marshall Brown | May 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Water Matters
Growing up on Long Island, I loved turtles. Painted, snappers, box turtles, spotted turtles, mud turtles. But for me the most elusive and by far the most beautiful were The Diamondback Terrapins. Their habitat is salt water marsh. They will spend their entire...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 1, 2017 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Lawn Fertilizer, News, Nitrogen Pollution, Pesticides, Septic Tanks
By any measure, this was a landmark week for those who for years have sought to address Long Island’s nitrogen pollution issues. First came the announcement by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone that a pilot program has been proposed that over the next two...
