by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
At least some of you will not be able to read this, not being registered at Newsday — the gist is, however, that we are once again facing large scale algal blooms this year, with worse perhaps to come.   Interestingly though, while so many bays are suffering,...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 6, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Sadly, but predictably, we were right.   The torrential rains Andrea brought also washed millions and millions of gallons of contaminated ground water waste into our ponds, streams, rivers and bays, and forced the closure of a number of beaches on Long Island.    ...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 3, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Via Andrew Kozak, a graduating senior at Stony Brook University. Â His senior project concerned the collapse of the clamming population in The Great South Bay, and with it a way of life. Â His project may be viewed at www.longislandclams.com....
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...