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...
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...
02.11.2015 Environment Rain garden rebate program expanded across Peconic Estuary A unique program that allowed for a small number of homeowners in Southold and Southampton towns to earn a rebate of up to $500 for installing rain gardens, rain barrels...
04.27.2014 News Cleaning the bays with ‘conservation landscaping’ Build a rain garden, help the environment, get a reward. It’s a simple as that. The federal Peconic Estuary Program, which was created 20 years ago to improve water...
03.07.2014 Environment Community water quality workshop planned for Saturday The Peconic Estuary Program will host a community water quality workshop Saturday, bringing local citizen and leaders together to discuss different types of projects underway in the communities. Different...
09.28.2013 Business Pour a glass and ‘Toast the Coast’ today In celebration of National Estuaries Day today, thousands of people nationwide will be making a “Toast the Coast,” in appreciation and support of keeping the nation’s rivers, bays and...
08.22.2013 News Rewards program offers residents incentive to help preserve bay waters Residents of the Hashamomuck Pond watershed in Southold will have an opportunity to earn cash to use for landscaping while they also help preserve nearby bay waters. The Peconic...
10.21.2012 Government Officials look to Peconic Estuary Program’s future The Peconic Estuary Program, which is part of a network of 28 nationally protected estuaries, turns 20 this year. Officials who helped to foster the program that put the...