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Here on Long Island, anyway. Route 51, one of my favorite roads, runs through unspoiled "wilderness" from the campus of Suffolk Community in Riverhead and down to Montauk highway. Unfortunately a significant portion of these pine barrens, south of Sunrise highway, are going to be torn down and...

I've noticed that they have compost dumps in various places in the LI Pine barrens. The smell from the one in Manorville is quite strong, makes my lungs burn. I wonder how this can be allowed in the central pine barrens, and once again, the Pine Barrens society seems totally inactive when it...

I know this may be far from the quiet peace of the pines, but I feel it is important to bring this up. Where were you on Septemeber 11, 2001? I was just waking up, in a rather difficult time in my life since I had lost my mother the year before and just trying to adjust. I didn't have cable at...

It is getting much worse here on Long Island. Recently I walked along Wading River Hollow road in Ridge, which seems to be a dumping ground for all sorts of garbage. It seems to be mostly bags of rubbish left by landscapers and tequila bottles left by illegals living in the woods. Here are the...

Another interesting article in the Pine Barrens Society Newsletter about the Eastern Hognose snake, which is very rare to see in our pine barrens. If we were to step back in time, say a hundred years ago, we[/I] would find a Long Island much different from the one we see today. We would...

He's mentioned in a recent newsletter exactly what I've been stating all along...the developers want neither open space or affordable housing. Here on Long Island, "McMansions" are popping up everywhere, and developments are set up in such a way to encourage as much car use as possible...

Along the Peconic, through the Calverton woods...

Some photos from the 5 mile stretch of Hampton Hills road, which serves the Hampton Hills CC and Sarnoff DEC Preserve.

I braved the pine flies (which really attacked me on the trails) to visit the small ponds near Lake Panamoka.

I know it's not the Pine Barrens, but there is an environmental crises going on in the wilderness in the southwestern United States, near the Mexican border. Illegal aliens are using the trails as routes and leaving behind mounds (and I mean MOUNDS) of litter. This is happening on a smaller...

August 20, 2006 Call it the War in the Woods. Or perhaps the Brawl in the Barrens. A cable TV show last weekend that began as a lovefest, with Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy thanking pine-barrens champion Richard Amper for helping reform the process for buying open space, soured...

August 20, 2006 Call it the War in the Woods. Or perhaps the Brawl in the Barrens. A cable TV show last weekend that began as a lovefest, with Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy thanking pine-barrens champion Richard Amper for helping reform the process for buying open space, soured...

There sure are alot of dragonflies out, I saw 3 different types when I was out near the woods this week

The ecological "footprint", especially here in the northeast, is much larger than average. People buy big houses, drive big SUV's, and waste energy in so many other ways it's sickening. Here on LI, it seems everyone has to drive them, even though no one needs an SUV for anything (on...

Hasn't this spring/early summer been much wetter than normal? We've had very few what I'd call "nice" days. It's been humid, cloudy, hazy...yucky. And we've had many 7-10 day periods of rainy weather, of which another one we are about to enter, as yet another front stalls out. I've been...

Nepeague is a thin strip of land that connects Montauk to the rest of Long Island's south fork. It is actually geologically very young, from sand that washed in and formed the very sandy dunelands in this area. Most of this is preserved as Nepeague State Park. Due to the sandy soil, the pitch...

Nepeague is a thin strip of land that connects Montauk to the rest of Long Island's south fork. It is actually geologically very young, from sand that washed in and formed the very sandy dunelands in this area. Most of this is preserved as Nepeague State Park. Due to the sandy soil, the pitch...

According to Entimologists this is gonna be a bad season for inchworms and caterpillars. I couldn't imagine it being any worse than last year, when it was impossible to go into the woods for a good part of June, unless you liked picking off 50 or more of the little loopers and hearing the sound...

Actually they are now hanging from most of the trees here in Nassau county on Long Island. Even on a typical Nassau street, packed with houses and not many trees, I got quite a few webs on me and in my face and some baby inchworms too. I can imagine that the woods are quite bad right now...

Well maybe I wouldn't call it a town, but the southern portion of the Rocky Point Preserve, near Rt.25 and between Wood Lots Rd and Wading River Hollow, used to be a game farm of some sort. Must be spooky at night!:jd: Leading up the paved narrow road, poles and wires remain. Going further...