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01.20.2023 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Saving Plum Island

It was a victory for all of us who live on the East End and southern New England when the federal omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month...

01.06.2023 News

Federal spending package includes support for Plum Island preservation effort

Plum Island preservation advocates are applauding language in recently-approved federal legislation that they say brings them one step to conservation. The federal omnibus spending bill passed by Congress just...

09.23.2022 News

Advocates press for preservation before Plum Island shutdown

Local stakeholders have called for more extensive review of Plum Island as the federal government looks to pack up and relocate labs to Manhattan, Kan. The federal government put...

04.07.2022 News

Study of Plum Island’s pristine waters reveal rare Long Island habitat

The Plum Island waters are a plum. That’s the gist of a scientific diving team’s findings, based on a report of a 2021 survey of Plum Island’s marine habitats....

02.20.2022 News

Plum Island coalition campaigns for national monument

The Southold Town Board plans to ask planning staff to write a letter of support for the Preserve Plum Island Coalition, which is campaigning to make Plum Island a...

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Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Saving Plum Island

Federal spending package includes support for Plum Island preservation effort

Advocates press for preservation before Plum Island shutdown

Study of Plum Island’s pristine waters reveal rare Long Island habitat

Plum Island coalition campaigns for national monument