April 25, 2012 – 11:21 am
This Spring, CCOM launched an initiative to introduce local students to the natural wonders of our area. With funding from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and Parks & Trails New York, we began a four-month Environmental Internship program with seven sophomores and juniors from East Hampton High School. Our interns are working with National Park [...]
April 19, 2012 – 10:01 am
This week, we welcome guest blogger Jim Zajac, President of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, who is one of the mentors guiding our seven student interns from East Hampton High School as they learn about Montauk’s natural environment. Jim is a wealth of knowledge and we encourage you to get to know and join [...]
I am coming up on my first anniversary of beekeeping in Montauk. I started by taking a weekly, 8-month course at the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Riverhead. (This same course is now being offered at South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton.) Through the class, I purchased 2 hive set-ups and 2 young colonies of [...]
February 28, 2012 – 4:00 pm
It appears that the “tail cost” – the true total cost of human activity — is a bill needing to be paid, even in space! As reported in the New York Times this week, a new study warns that extraterrestrial clutter has reached a point where, if nothing is done to clean it up, a [...]
February 15, 2012 – 11:32 am
Thank goodness concerned citizens are showing up in court when the Surf Lodge case is on the docket, demonstrating their interest in its outcome. Three-plus years in and the bar/restaurant has yet to pay fines for the 686 charges filed against it. Violations include conducting work without a building permit, no certificate of occupancy, no [...]
January 9, 2012 – 9:45 pm
On Saturday, my wife, Rachel, and I went for a breathtaking hike along the new Amsterdam Beach trail. According to my GPS, the hike is approximately one mile from the parking area to bluffs. From there we walked a short distance eastward down to the beach. We have walked most of the trails in the [...]
October 11, 2011 – 2:21 pm
Many of our concerns about the dangers of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Connecticut have been sharpened since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered Japan’s worst nuclear crisis at Fukushima, Daiichi. We’re concerned about 40-year-old Millstone, a nuclear power plant that is only about 20 miles away from Montauk across the [...]
August 19, 2011 – 1:25 pm
When CCOM was founded in 1970, its challenge was to save what is now Theodore Roosevelt County Park from being developed into 1,400 tract houses. (Can you imagine!?!) In the following decades, CCOM was a driving force in the land preservation effort that led to 70% of Montauk’s land being protected as open space for all to [...]
August 19, 2011 – 1:15 pm
. . . . only 20 miles?!? Yep, that’s right. Forty-year old Millstone Nuclear Power Plant is only 20 miles across the Sound from Montauk. One of Millstone’s active reactors was built around the same time as Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, the reactor that was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, triggering Japan’s worst nuclear crisis. The [...]
