by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Scott Gerber reports from his 1946 Piper Cub: Somewhere down there — a school of fish. Meanwhile on the ground below, celebrity hound Otis travels with his master Surf Fireisland to The Old Inlet / Breach...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Join The Cause and Build a Future For Long Island! Start using lawn and agricultural fertilizers that are eco-friendly, that don’t pollute our groundwater, drinking water and bays with excess nitrogen and phosphorus. The excess nitrogen has been...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured
Rust Tide ” Long Island ” Cablevision EditorialsBecause of this nitrogen threat, the Peconic Baykeeper intends to sue the state DEC, saying it is failing to protect impaired estuaries from wastewater pollution. Meanwhile, a coalition of environmental...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 13, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
There is really no consensus on what to call the inlet created by Hurricane Sandy across from Bellport Bay and west of Smith Point.    Over at our Facebook Group, Save the Great South Bay, we have debated this and voted on this repeatedly. We have had various marine...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy.   Without that, there is no story.  You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Michael Busch of Bellport takes News12 out to The Old Inlet/Breach to show them how much healthier that part of the bay has become since Sandy created it six months ago — fluke, sea turtles, seal, osprey, clear waters — and how the bay continues to be...
