by Artie Kopelman | May 23, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Education
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 tortoises, and to freshwater turtles, except that their legs have been modified into flippers to aid them...
by Katie Muether Brown | May 1, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats, Water Matters, Water Quality
Save The Great South Bay warmly welcomes guest blogger, Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society on how our Pine Barren trees help protect our waters. Colloquially, the piece of legislation that protected over 100,000 acres of Pine...
by Save The Great South Bay | Apr 28, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Fishing and Boating
Menhaden, aka Bunker, are oftentimes referred to as the “most important fish in the ocean”. They play a key role in the marine ecosystem linking their food source, plankton, to larger predators such as striped bass and bluefish, sharks, marine mammals, and fish-eating...
by Niko Nantsis | Apr 20, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Fixing Habitats
For thousands of years after the last glacial period, the American Chestnut, Castanea Dentata, dominated the eastern Deciduous Forests of the eastern United States, making up 25% to 30% of the forest canopy of Long Island’s hardwood forests. Growing over 100 to 120 ft...
by Frank Piccininni | Apr 20, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Fixing Habitats
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 in pots in my back yard. Thank you to Niko for finding them! More on this...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 21, 2020 | Advocacy, Featured, Fixing Habitats, News
Hello all. It’s been a while since I posted. As of January 1st, I’d stepped down as Executive Director after 7 years. I’d turned 60, had my childhood home to renovate and Susie, my autistic / artist sister to attend to, and had some really exciting...
by Michael Beckerich | Mar 4, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Pollution, Toxic Plumes
At the risk of having some fun with a serious subject… the recent town hall style meeting hosted at the Nassau County Bar Association reminded me of the movie “Jaws” when Amity residents and politicians finally admitted they have a problem. New...
by Marshall Brown | Feb 8, 2020 | Podcast
On this episode of Water Matters, documentary filmmaker Alan Honick & Dr. Kristin Perret discuss how prosocial interventions can help communities come to a consensus on local issues that seem otherwise intractable. Prosocial takes into account the needs of all...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 17, 2020 | Podcast
Suffolk County and New York State recognize the pressing need to address significant nitrogen levels in our local waterways and groundwater caused in part by underground septic tanks. On this episode of Water Matters, Marshall Brown talks with Peter Scully, sewer czar...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 17, 2019 | Emerging Contaminants, Podcast
Emerging contaminants, such as 1,4-dioxane, were a hot topic in 2019 and sure to continue to be well into the future. Learn more about them as well as the toxic effects of methoprene, the mosquito pesticide, on our marshlands in this Save The Great South Bay Speaker...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 17, 2019 | Podcast
Go native! In this episode of Water Matters, we are joined by Matt Gettinger of Long Island Natives. As one of the most comprehensive native plant producers in New York, LI Natives is dedicated to growing a wide variety of native species representing the local flora...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 16, 2019 | Podcast
If one oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day, how would one billion oysters affect water quality? Listen in as our distinguished panel discusses the economic and environmental potential of returning shellfish to the Bay during our Speaker Series entitled...
