Peconic Estuary Program Archives

11.29.2019 Business

Local restaurants shift gears after scallop die-off

This season’s scallop die-off — and the resulting dismal harvest — has restaurateurs, baymen and ecologists deeply worried.

06.15.2019 Environment

Final phase of living shoreline project underway in Greenport

Five years in the making, Peconic Estuary Program’s first living shoreline is coming to fruition as Greenport Elementary School students gathered Monday with representatives of community organizations to complete...

05.07.2019 Environment

Director of Peconic Estuary Program outlines updates on program

The Peconic Estuary Program, one of 28 national estuary programs mandated by the 1972 Clean Water Act, will be seeking local input this summer on community areas that residents...

09.14.2018 Environment

Federal funds to restore habitat at Cedar Beach Creek

Federal funds have been allocated for a restoration project at Cedar Beach, Congressman Lee Zeldin announced last Friday. According to a Habitat Restoration Plan prepared by the Peconic Estuary...

A newly hatched piping plover photographed last Thursday on Cedar Beach in Southold. (Credit: Tom Reichert)

08.07.2018 Environment

Cedar Beach in Southold to become ‘living shoreline’

Along coastlines around the globe, including here on the North Fork, climate change poses the threat of sea level rise. For decades, “shoreline hardening,” by adding manmade seawalls and...

08.01.2018 Environment

Peconic Estuary Program welcomes new director, Joyce Novak

Gazing out at the Peconic River, Joyce Novak can’t help but ponder its past. Ms. Novak, newly appointed director of the Peconic Estuary Program, is especially interested in studying...

07.13.2018 Environment

Salt marsh workshop will prep plants for living shoreline in Greenport

The Peconic Estuary Program will host a salt marsh workshop Saturday for volunteers who will help prepare plants for use in one of Long Island’s first living shoreline projects.

04.23.2018 Environment

Peconic Estuary Program seeks public input on management plan

The Peconic Estuary Program is seeking the public’s input on its Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan, which hasn’t seen updates since it was approved in 2001. The CCMP is the...

07.14.2017 Editorials

Editorial: Will funding for Peconic Estuary Program end this year?

What makes the North Fork unique is its farmland, salt creeks and Peconic Bay. They draw people here and keep them here. From the point where the Peconic River...

07.13.2017 Environment

Peconic Estuary Program celebrates 25 years, but funds in doubt

Kevin McDonald remembers 1985, when brown tide was first detected in Peconic Bay. He was recently married, and he and his wife had purchased snorkels and face masks to...

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