Many thanks to our colleagues over at the Department of Environmental Control for sharing this important info in the DEC Saltwater Fishing & Boating …
Category: Education
Top Five LI Native Trees
Lost trees thanks to the blustering winds of Tropical Storm Isaias and wondering what to replace them with? Here are our top five suggestions …
Harmful Algal Blooms: Know it, AVOID it, Report it!
From our colleagues at the NYS Department of Environmental Control. Because it is hard to tell a HAB from non-harmful algal blooms, it is …
Protect Our Drinking Water
We stand shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues at Group for the East End, and many other local environmental groups, in opposition of the …
Good Seagrass = Good Seafood
We welcome DEC Seagrass Management with a guest blog post on the importance of seagrass to the Great South Bay. What is seagrass? Seagrasses …
Meet Long Island’s Sea Turtles
Sea turtles are large turtles that inhabit warm waters of our planet’s oceans, bays and estuaries. They are similar to their terrestrial (land) cousins, …
The Pine Barrens: How Trees Protect Our Water
Save The Great South Bay warmly welcomes guest blogger, Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society on how our …
Save The Great South Bay Facebook Demographics
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.
From a Island To a Nation – If we were a country, we’d be the 96th most populated ahead of Israel
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 …
New York and New Jersey Government leading the Ecological charge for our NY/NJ area bays, rivers and estuaries. It’s True!
Facts: 2018 Cuomo Priority: Full PCB Clean Up of the Hudson River Cuomo Announces $10.4 Mil to Clean LI’s Waters With Shellfish A New …
Pumpouts in The Great South Bay: Are Boaters Pumping or Dumping? STOP POO-LLUTION!
Pumping out sewage from boats might not be appealing but is obviously necessary if lavatory facilities are utilized onboard. The proper use of pumpout …
New York and New Jersey: A Bridge to Success. We are all deeply connected to the waters we share
Before founding Save The Great South Bay, in 1999 I married and moved to Northern New Jersey. Having been a lifelong Long Islander and …