by Marshall Brown | Jan 9, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Two years back, Save The Great South Bay was invited to become a member of the Fertilizer Workgroup for The Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan (LINAP).  LINAP, a multiyear initiative to reduce nitrogen in Long Island’s surface and groundwaters, was established by...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 17, 2018 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards
Hiring a landscaper for 2018? For the sake of our bays and our drinking water, make sure they are being ‘green’ about it. Ask them to use a mulching mower so that the grass clippings (or the leaves in the fall) can feed your lawn. That is the best food...
by Marshall Brown | May 26, 2016 | Education
Right now people are meeting and planning to launch a moratorium on the use of pesticides and non-organic lawn fertilizers in Sayville. Â The goal is this: Â If we could get just this one community to change its lawn care practices, would we see any measurable...
by Marshall Brown | May 3, 2016 | Bay Friendly Yards, Education
I was recently asked to speak before Girl Scout Troop #217 (Bayport-Blue Point) by Troop Leader Amy Prince about The Great South Bay and what they could do to help it. Â Â They decided to help the bay by asking people in their community to make a pledge not to use...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 21, 2016 | Advocacy, Education
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0sPthfadd9E The Great South Bay. For hundreds of years, it was a ‘shellfish factory’: oysters, then clams. This shallow lagoon on The South Shore of Long Island provided half of all the hard shell clams eaten in this country. For...
