Next Saturday, September 15, Save the Sound will celebrate our 10th year as the Connecticut coordinator of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. In its 27th year, International Coastal Cleanup brings volunteers together all around the world to clean up our coastlines. Last year alone, ICC brought together almost 600,000 volunteers who cleaned up 9,184,428 […]
This week’s Observation Friday has Tom Andersen, author of This Fine Piece of Water, providing his thoughts on the severity of this year’s low-oxygen problem: Water quality in the western end of Long Island Sound this summer is not good – almost shockingly so considering the generally decent conditions of recent years. In roughly 18 […]
Today’s post wraps up our six-day sailing adventure around Long Island Sound. Our own Curt Johnson shares with us the highlights from the trip’s final leg from Oyster Bay to Port Jefferson before sailing back home to Branford. After paddling in from our anchorage right off the town of Oyster Bay last night, Mark and […]
This week’s post for Observation Friday picks up on our sailing adventure in the far western reaches of Long Island Sound. Our own Curt Johnson shares with us a wonderful day on the water with two friends and colleagues. After saying goodbye to Chris Cryder, a great companion who trained home Tuesday night, I said hello to Nancy […]
Today we pick up on the Save the Sound sailing journey in New York. Over the past few days, Curt Johnson and Chris Cryder have sailed down Long Island Sound from Branford stopping in Bridgeport and Darien. On Monday, after spending the night moored off Remington Beach, Curt and Chris canoed into Bridgeport and met […]
Yesterday, Curt Johnson and Chris Cryder of CFE/Save the Sound set out on a week-long journey traveling Long Island Sound by sailboat. Curt and Chris will be docking in several locations in Connecticut and New York along the way, including Bridgeport, Darien, Mamaroneck, Oyster Bay, and Port Jefferson, to meet with local advocates and elected […]
Last week, the New Haven Register wrote a story about dead menhaden littering the banks of the Quinnipiac River recently. While the cause of the die off of thousands of bunker fish in the Quinnipiac River is not yet known, there is a likely scenario—and it’s one that does not spell environmental doom.
This past Wednesday, elected officials representing 14 municipalities in Long Island formally established the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee. The signing of the Inter-Municipal Agreement codifies the relationship between the municipalities who have been working together since January 2010 at the recommendation of Friends of the Bay.
