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The Pine Barrens: How Trees Protect Our Water

The Pine Barrens: How Trees Protect Our Water

by Katie Muether Brown | May 1, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats, Water Matters, Water Quality

Save The Great South Bay warmly welcomes guest blogger, Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society on how our Pine Barren trees help protect our waters. Colloquially, the piece of legislation that protected over 100,000 acres of Pine...
STGSB Podcast Episode 5: Methoprene & Emerging Contaminants

STGSB Podcast Episode 5: Methoprene & Emerging Contaminants

by Marshall Brown | Dec 17, 2019 | Emerging Contaminants, Podcast

Emerging contaminants, such as 1,4-dioxane, were a hot topic in 2019 and sure to continue to be well into the future. Learn more about them as well as the toxic effects of methoprene, the mosquito pesticide, on our marshlands in this Save The Great South Bay Speaker...
STGSB Podcast Episode 4: Native Planting with Matt Gettinger

STGSB Podcast Episode 4: Native Planting with Matt Gettinger

by Marshall Brown | Dec 17, 2019 | Podcast

Go native! In this episode of Water Matters, we are joined by Matt Gettinger of Long Island Natives. As one of the most comprehensive native plant producers in New York, LI Natives is dedicated to growing a wide variety of native species representing the local flora...
STGSB Podcast Episode 2: The Challenges of Sustainable Development

STGSB Podcast Episode 2: The Challenges of Sustainable Development

by Marshall Brown | Dec 6, 2019 | Podcast

Commercial developers and environmentalists may not seem likely bedfellows but surprisingly there is much common ground when it comes to sustainable development. Listen in to our recent conversation with real estate developer Anthony Bartone of Terwilliger &...
STGSB Podcast Episode 1: Water Quality Task Force

STGSB Podcast Episode 1: Water Quality Task Force

by Frank Piccininni | Nov 18, 2019 | Podcast

On Monday, Nov 18th, Frank Piccininni, Save the Great South Bay Board Member, Biologist, and Environmental Attorney, spoke before the Assembly Minority Conference’s Water Quality Task Force about the benefits of Bay Friendly Yards and how increased funding could...
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