by Marshall Brown | May 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Water Matters
Growing up on Long Island, I loved turtles. Painted, snappers, box turtles, spotted turtles, mud turtles. But for me the most elusive and by far the most beautiful were The Diamondback Terrapins. Their habitat is salt water marsh. They will spend their entire...
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 | Oct 28, 2015 | Fixing Habitats
Can one South Shore village help to save The Great South Bay, or at least their little corner of it?   Sayville High School’s Freshman Class has forced this question.  They decided to adopt The Great South Bay as the non-profit they would support this year.  ...
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 | Oct 16, 2013 | Advocacy, Shellfish
Rich Murdocco, writing for Long Island Business News, argues we need to adopt land use and water treatment policies that can bring back our bays and our shellfishing industry. It is important to remember that many of the land use issues discussed each week have real...
