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Downtown Port Jefferson - Mill Creek Project Benefits Birds and Aquatic Wildlife

6/8/2023

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Local landscape architect field trials and tribulations of phragmites and knotweed control. Volunteers needed. 
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Brook Pond
By Bob Laravie, Mill Creek Steward
 What is that horrible screeching sound?  Dragging the canoe into Port Jefferson’s Mill Creek Pond, the area recently rebranded as Brook Pond Park, I am off on another session of underwater cutting.​ ​Underwater cutting of invasive Phragmites seems to work well. Maintaining water depth of the pond is important because if the plants break the water surface they can regenerate quickly. 

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Foul Play to Boy's Endless Summer Beach Fun

8/8/2022

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by Mindy Block

​Port Jefferson - Sometimes you want to just cry about the injustice adults put upon a twelve year old kid.  I drove over to East Beach where no sign, nor any lifeguard knew of this mid August beach closure.

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Proposed Mather Hospital Parking Lot Expansion Impacts Memorial Nature Trail

2/24/2022

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by Mindy Block
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On a recent snowy day, I discovered The Peter Hildebrand Memorial Nature Trail.  Beautifully quiet and still, it's also threatened by bulldozing and tree cutting. 

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The Bluff: What's to Become of LI North Shore Beaches

1/20/2022

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by Mindy Block
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Frankly, I should've run away from another Port Jefferson controversy, but beaches are important to Long Islanders. . . . Yesterday, Defend H2O broadcasted an email  in response to an article about the Bluff,  and several weeks prior, one of Quality Parks volunteers  reviewed the Village of Port Jefferson as a park resource.

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When Lawns Transition to Natural Landscapes Call It A Garden to Avoid Legal Fines

8/25/2021

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by Mindy Block
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Updated: Dec 7, 2021

​Many native pollinator gardens have been added to Harborfront Park to increase habitat for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Recently these gardens were being replaced by more and more lawn spaces. Conversations and actions are underway at Village of Port Jefferson  to balance biodiversity and aesthetics.  


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Quality Parks is a professional organization sponsoring projects to improve both business and environmental conditions by balancing social, economic and environmental concerns. We disseminate information, develop and provide experiential learning opportunities, and support efforts designed to stimulate, encourage, educate, and involve the general public in natural resource stewardship practice​s. ​We are a  federally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, since 2000, based in Port Jefferson, on  Long Island, New York
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