by Marshall Brown | May 11, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
The seal carcass found and photographed last Saturday on the beach a mile west of Smith Point was NOT as it turned out killed by a shark, and certainly not a Great White.  While Great Whites are feeding on seals off Cape Cod, we’ve yet to see any evidence that...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay here presents two videos from two Facebook Group members. The first is from Dan Smith, an avid kayaker and Brookhaven resident, of what he (like many) refer to as The Old Inlet, but which others know as The New Inlet or The Breach. Call it...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 16, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Since early November, when the news first broke that Hurricane Sandy had breached Fire Island in The Otis Pike High Dunes Wilderness Area, and that this ‘new inlet’ was to be left open at least for a time, The New Inlet has either been demonized as the...
by John Hall | Apr 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
A work in progress: Â Federal The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Home.aspx The 1996 Breach Contingency Plan Click to access ACOE-BCP-1996_web.pdf Recommendations for a Barrier Island Breach Management Plan for Fire Island National Seashore,...
