Beyond providing nutrition and beautifying spaces, gardens can serve many purposes, such as supporting natural processes and pollinators. Rain gardens are a type of …
Category: Fixing Habitats
We’ve Got a Winner!
With 34 teams competing in our first ever GSB Summer Fun Scavenger Hunt the competition was fierce. The game started promptly at 9:00 am …
Top 3 Elements of a Bay Friendly Yard
Long Island invented the suburban lawn. Fields of green with ornamental bushes brought in from all over the world requiring all manner of care …
The GSB Oyster Project
Supporting Oyster Farmers & Aquaculture Save The Great South Bay, a 501(c)3 environmental non-profit, is proud to launch the GSB Oyster Project with an …
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 …
Restoring Habitat Along Carll’s River
On the banks of the beautiful Carll’s River in Babylon Village, just where it crosses under Park Avenue, you will find the Carll’s River …
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 …
Summer 2020 GSB Scavenger Hunt
New Date! Sat Aug 15-Sun Aug 16 Join our Summer Fun Scavenger Hunt between July 24-26th when teams of up to four players compete …
Do Good, Drink Well.
It’s back & more refreshing than ever. It’s Blue Point Brewery’s remarkable (and limited edition) label, Drink The Bay Clean, created to support Save …
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 …
Hunt for the American Chestnut Challenge
For thousands of years after the last glacial period, the American Chestnut, Castanea Dentata, dominated the eastern Deciduous Forests of the eastern United States, …
Sprouts with Historic Roots
Humble beginnings with Nikolaos Nantsis, James Bertsch, Stephen Borghardt, Rob Vasiluth, Marshall Brown, et al. These tiny sprouts are those of Long Island wild type American Chestnut growing …