Make the Peconic Estuary Your Valentine
The centerfold of the print edition of the East End Beacon has always been a love letter to the Peconic
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Nature
State Sues Feds Over Fluke
New York is suing the federal government over its method of calculating commercial fluke fishing quotas, arguing that the state’s
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Peconic Region Named New York State Heritage Area
The five towns that comprise the Peconic Bay Region have a unique symbiosis that is a direct result of their
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Long Island Sound Gets EPA Grant Funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that it has issued 36 grants totaling $2.57 million for projects to
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Riverside Maritime Trail Plan Near Complete
Landscape designers working on a plan for the Riverside Maritime Trail Park, a 14-acre swath of public land across the
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Accabonac Mosquito Spraying Cut Dramatically Due to New Testing Partnership
Environmentalists in East Hampton are celebrating an innovative program that has enabled the reduction of the spraying of Accabonac Harbor
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Deceased Humpback Whale Washes Up on Napeague
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society received a report from the U.S. Coast Guard Montauk Station this morning around 8:30 a.m. of
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Save Our Seagrass: Taking the Local Approach to Protecting Our Essential Marine Habitats
Pictured Above: Soren Dahl shows an aerial photograph of scour marks surrounding moorings in an eelgrass bed in Coecles Harbor
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Southold Seeks Genetic Shellfishery Testing
Southold Town, which has some of the most extensive and productive creek networks on the East End, has been taking
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New Coordinator for Peconic Estuary Protection
Longtime environmental advocate Patricia Aitken has joined the Peconic Estuary Protection Committee as its new coordinator, responsible for working with
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A New Harvest from the Peconics
by Beth Young People have been farming the seas all over the world for centuries, but on the East End,
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