by Marshall Brown | Jul 21, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender
With the failure of the dam at West Brook, we all have a golden opportunity to engage in some essential habitat restoration,  The fact that this artificial pond (or impoundment) created in the 1880s is now gone, and now West Brook is one of the few brooks, streams or...
by James Bertsch | Jul 12, 2019 | Advocacy, News
[Originally Published in The Suffolk County News Under “Lets Learn From Our Past Mistakes.”  Reposted with permission here] BY JAMES BERTSCH SUFFOLK COUNTY—For most, owning a home is what the American Dream is all about. Nothing speaks more directly to...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2019 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Creek Defender, Featured
Last Thursday I was a guest for Coffee With The Supervisor as a guest of Brookhaven’s Ed Romaine. While there was no coffee served, Ed did lob a couple o softballs as we joined together to rail against the destructive practice of methoprene spraying. Ed had back...
by Howard Ryan | Jun 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay recently launched a window sticker program so that we can continue to build local awareness. Whether you own a store or drive a car, or captain a boat: Kevin Carey, who grew up in Sayville, where of course I knew the family, hosted the launch...
by Howard Ryan | May 24, 2019 | Advocacy, Community Board, Featured, News, Stickers
It is with great pleasure I can tell you that this sticker program is now EXPLODING all over Long Island! The idea is simple. Stickers Everywhere! Initial results are overwhelming!!!! It does cost us a couple of bucks to make the stickers and mail them to you albeit...
by Marshall Brown | May 5, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
It was a surprisingly wet Saturday in Massapequa for its first Creek Defender Day May 4th, this Saturday.  The spring has been a soggy one, but we all saw what we thought was a break in the rain for a couple of days beforehand.  So happy we had our tent, and so...