by Marshall Brown | Apr 18, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay applauds Lawrence Downes for his editorial piece in the New York Times For April 18th: Fire Island’s Lucky Break.   The breach / New Inlet is flushing and cleaning the bay, the evidence that it is causing any additional flooding is...
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 Marshall Brown | Mar 21, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Here is just a short list of articles on coastal flooding and erosion in the Northeast.  While local politicians and some shoreline residents point at a breach at The Old Inlet as the source of their flooding woes, a much larger picture, as large as climate change...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 19, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
The Fear of Flooding From the Breach at The Old Inlet Is Overblown Nice LTE on the topic of flooding and the breach at The Old Inlet in Newsday.
by Marshall Brown | Mar 14, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, at his announcement today that he was in favor of closing the breach, was unable to name JUST one scientist he spoke with who supported his view. So the question is ‘Do you want science driving policy, or...
