There’s a boardwalk on Munn Point where wild birds find haven. A nature preserve on the bay side of a beach strip known as Billionaire’s Lane. While tycoons land at the helipad at the end of Meadow Lane, migrating birds soar in on their own wings. They have no need of 20 to 40 million […]
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Where the glaciers once stopped are ocean bluffs in a place called Shadmoor. Near Montauk. A nature preserve named after the Shadbush. In 1898 over 21,000 soldiers were brought to Camp Wikoff – which was part of this land – to prevent the spread of yellow fever and tropical diseases at the end of the Spanish-American War. Now there’s a running
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Looking at this view of Albert’s Landing Beach on a rainy day you may not think of the days of The Great Gatsby. The Roaring Twenties. Parties at mansion estates in Long Island. Soon children will be playing and swimming on this bay beach in Amagansett. A family-friendly beach on Gardiner’s Bay where the water is
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Imagine sand like a slow motion tsunami covering whole forests and wetlands. Instead of protecting land, dunes moving inland at about 3 1/2 feet a year. At places reaching 80 feet high. Welcome to The Walking Dunes in Hither Hills State Park in Montauk, NY. Northwest winds for over 100 years or more have been blowing sand from
Stretching across the Southfork in the Hamptons is a series of coastal plain ponds, marshes and wetlands known as the Long Pond Greenbelt. My children and I went for a nature adventure following the trails along its northern loop starting in Sag Harbor. Over 600 acres have been protected as this ecosystem, according to the Nature
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Not far from Sammy’s Beach Preserve, I had to stop the car to let wild turkeys cross the road. Soon Sammy’s Beach Road led us to a coastal sand spit which is now a nature preserve. We followed a footpath, overgrown in parts with marsh plants. And wandered near tidal creeks and salt ponds known
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