by Marshall Brown | Jan 10, 2016 | Fixing Habitats
I read the news over the last two days that the grounds of what was LaSalle Military Academy and before that the then 200+ acre estate was originally owned by Frederick Gilbert Bourne.  Under his stewardship, as the fifth President of The Singer Sewing Machine Company...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 18, 2014 | Featured, Fixing Habitats
Here’s a useful graphic from The Nature Conservancy showing the sources of nitrogen pollution in various parts of the East End of Long Island, from a report entitled Nitrogen Load Modeling — The Peconic Estuary, New York. The good news – Long...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 28, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
On Long Island, science is trumping politics. People from across the political spectrum have embraced the fact that Long Island urgently needs a plan to fix its waste water problems. The science is speaking for itself – 500,000 septic tanks, 360,000 in Suffolk.  The...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 10, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
On November 13th, 2013, The Suffolk County Legislature voted 13-3 to raid the Drinking Water Protection Program to the tune of almost $33 million dollars in order to balance the budget.  This was unacceptable then, and now.  The fund was established in 1987 by a...
