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...
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...
Right now people are meeting and planning to launch a moratorium on the use of pesticides and non-organic lawn fertilizers in Sayville. The goal is this: If we could get just this one community to change its lawn care practices, would we see any measurable...
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. They decided to help the bay by asking people in their community to make a pledge not to use...
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 generations, baymen worked the bay and raised...
