Bridge to the Barrens Blog

The Long Island Pine Barrens Society is officially launching a new blog feature called "Five Questions with an Environmentalist." We...

While you are outside enjoying these warm summer nights, you most likely will notice an abundance of moths. Some moths...

The birds and the bees need our help! Now onto the bees. In part I of the Birds and the...

The birds and the bees need our help! Let’s start with the birds. The bird population has many threats and...

What do you think of when you hear and see the word “environment”? The environment encompasses many things, the living and...

Happy Earth Day! To us at the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, every day is Earth Day. However, we still...

We colloquially call the piece of legislation that protected over 100,000 acres of Pine Barrens land, the “Long Island Pine...

1,4-dioxane is a byproduct of manufacturing and therefore it’s not listed on product labels, which makes it difficult to look...

On March 8th each year, the world celebrates “International Women’s Day.” Today we celebrate the achievements of women and take...

If you’ve been following us for a while, then you know that we’ve been fighting a massive development project proposed...

What is the Long Island Pine Barrens? Heading east on the Long Island Expressway, just after passing exit 63, you...

As the year comes to close, we are reflecting on all of the news and activities from the past year....

On Tuesday, November 19th, the Long Island Clean Water Partnership hosted its eighth annual “Water We Going To Do?” Conference....

Looking for ghosts, bats, and other spooky things this Halloween? Look no further than the Long Island Pine Barrens! Pay...

By: Katie Muether Brown  (originally published in The Pine Barrens Today Vol. 32, No. 2) The origin of the Long Island...

By: Katie Muether Brown, Long Island Pine Barrens Society The Long Island Pine Barrens is a special place. Our Pine...

By Patricia Pelkowski, The Nature Conservancy In broadest outline, Long Island’s natural communities historically consisted of two bands of hardwood...

By John Turner, Pine Barrens Society Co-Founder Paradise Found: This place, Long Island, with its basement of 450 million year...

By Bob McGrath, Pine Barrens Society Co-Founder The natural world that surrounds us offers thousands of simple pleasures – the...