Advocates with an eye toward preserving Plum island from development spoke out at a public hearing on proposed new zoning in Southold Town Tuesday night. The new zoning, which would include a conservation and a research district, would prevent a private owner from developing projects ranging from homes to a casino on the site. For
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At the Saybrook Point Inn & Spa, the U.S. General Services Administration held its Connecticut public hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the sale of Plum Island Oct. 17, 2012 . Save the Sound attended the hearing with a large group and beforehand, organized a rally with members of Congress, state legislators, local
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“Plum Island has been identified for protection by our highest state and federal authorities due to its tremendous ecological value and recreational potential,” said Leah Schmalz, director of legislative and legal affairs for Save the Sound. Click on this environmental headline to read more on this story from Save the Sound.
Why is one federal agency studying the idea of selling Plum Island for residential and perhaps resort development when another federal agency has already cited the importance of preserving it due to its great ecological value? Because Congress gave the order that it does so, of course. This is your government in action. For more
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Connecticut’s environmental community is dismayed at a study released Friday on the sale of Plum Island because they believe its recommendations do not adequately protect the island’s unique ecology and wildlife. Curt Johnson, an attorney for Save the Sound, said his group will push back against the study’s conclusions. “It just really is sad that
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Plum Island is home to over one hundred species of birds, including two federally threatened species of birds, Piping Plovers and Roseate Terns, and Long Island’s largest seal colony. This decision is one that Save the Sound and other environmental organizations have urged against for the past two and a half years.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A federal agency supports a plan to sell New York’s Plum Island, home to the country’s only laboratory that studies infectious animal diseases that could affect the livestock industry, according to a draft report by the agency. Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Long Island-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said
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The U.S. General Services Administration, the agency in charge of the possible sale or other future use of the island, is preparing a draft environmental analysis, called an Environmental Impact Statement, on the island’s proposed sale. Congress voted in 2008 to sell Plum Island if a new lab site could be found, and in 2009 a site near Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., was identified.
Take your pick: Marshes are the “nurseries of life” or the “kidneys of the watershed,” said an expert on habitat restoration Thursday evening during a lecture titled “Long Island Sound: Restoring What Has Been Lost.” The impact of humans on the Sound has been significant, said Chris Cryder of Save The Sound, beginning with the
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The online petition from the Connecticut Fund for the Environment is targeting the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
The aim is to keep the federal government from selling Plum Island — an 843-acre island at the eastern end of Long Island Sound — to the highest bidder.
Plum Island has long been the home of a federal research facility and it has been recognized as an important sanctuary for wildlife and native plants.
