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Sheepshead Bay’s Iconic Swans Back On State’s Kill List, Sort Of

Swans on Weber Court. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz)The state has released a new plan to manage the booming mute swan population, telling critics that if they don’t want to see the swans killed then they have to pay to keep them around. The revised plan, released Monday by

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Thursday: Get Involved In Making Jamaica Bay More Storm Resilient

The Ryan Center at Floyd Bennett FieldA new institute established to bolster the social and ecological research of Jamaica Bay and the communities around it has won millions of dollars in grant money to make the critical resource more resilient, and are turning to locals for their input. The Science

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Plumb Beach Cat Colony Given Stay Of Exe-CUTE-tion!

Members of the 25 strong cat colony on Plumb Beach (Photo by Lisanne Anderson/Flickr)You didn’t actually think we’d get through this story without a headline pun did you? The National Park Service (NPS) has agreed to give more time to cat enthusiasts to remove a sizable

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12,000 Free Trees Available – Here’s Where To Get One

I wonder if there’s a policy about taking trees on the subway… (Source: NYRP/Flickr)The New York Restoration Project [http://www.nyrp.org/], a non-profit dedicated to building greenspaces and the lead partner of the MillionTreesNYC [http://milliontreesnyc.org/html/home/home.shtml] initiative, is going all out

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Jamaica Bay’s Wildlife Reserve Wins $400,000 Grant For Revitalization

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)Rockaway Beach Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder announced last week that a project to restore and maintain Jamaica Bay’s wildlife reserve, a sprawling 18,000-acre wetland estuary, has won a $400,000 from the Regional Economic Development Council for habitat restoration. The project, Jamaica Bay Habitat Restoration and

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Opposition To Proposed Pipeline Is Still Growing

Source: WilliamsAs we recently reported [/president-obama-approves-rockaways-pipeline-project/], the proposed construction of the Rockaways Pipeline Project crossed another hurdle towards reality when President Obama recently signed H.R. 2606, approving the measure that would connect a 3.17-mile natural gas line from the Atlantic Ocean underneath Jamaica Bay to a meter and

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Jamaica Bay Pipeline Opponents Speak Out Following Senate Approval

CARP members collecting petitions at Riis Park.We reported on Monday about the United States Senate giving the green light [/pipeline-bill-passes-pipeline-will-be-constructed-in-jamaica-bay/] to H.R. 2606 [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:H.R.2606:], clearing one of the last major hurdles to the installation of a natural gas

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Public Hearings On Jamaica Bay Natural Gas Pipeline

The following was sent to us from the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers: > The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Rockaway Delivery Lateral Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Transcontinental Gas

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We Knew We Had Seals, Now We Have Seal Watchers

It’ll soon be a year since we first reported a seal sighting at the dock of the Miramar Yacht Club [/photos-seals-at-play-in-sheepshead-bay/]. The adorable animal was seen just lounging around, getting his tan on. At the time a yacht club member said he has never seen a seal in the

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KCC Hosts “Eco-Festival 2011: Sustaining Waters”

We are all more acutely aware of the effects our activities have on the marine ecosystems since the catastrophic explosion and subsequent oil spill — the petroleum industry’s largest in history — devastated the Gulf of Mexico last year, claiming 11 human lives and taking an incalculable toll on marine life.