Conservation

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers received $75,000 from The Nature Conservancy to help expand their Indigenous-run kelp farm and hatchery in Shinnecock Bay on eastern Long Island.

A 41-mile stretch of the Housatonic River in Connecticut has been designated ‘Wild and Scenic’ by the federal government. It’s the result of a decades-long effort by conservationists — and it comes with perks.

Deer Lake in Killingworth, a 300-acre forest owned by the Connecticut Yankee Council, part of Boy Scouts of America, is being sold to the nonprofit conservationist group Pathfinder for $4.75 million.

Connecticut and Long Island beaches will be examined as part of a National Audubon Society study of beach nesting birds along the East Coast.

In Killingworth, environmentalists and public officials are trying to stop the Boy Scouts of America from selling its wooded 252-acre Deer Lake Scout Reservation to a developer.

President Biden said last May that he wanted the U.S. to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030. A year later, a vast majority of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean remains at-risk, but new maps could help ocean conservation efforts.

President Biden announced that he will restore protections to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a nearly 5,000-square-mile…

Volunteers will work later this week to clean up the Purcell Preserve, one of the last remaining pieces of the Hempstead Plains in Nassau County.If you’ve…