03.17.2016 Editorials Editorial: Pine Barrens Law applies to everyone, even the DEC “What were we going to do? Ask them to replant the trees?” So replied Brookhaven Town supervisor and former county legislator Ed Romaine when asked last week why the...
03.14.2016 Environment After complaints about DEC violating state law, no action taken In June 2015, Brookhaven Town officials and the leader of an environmental nonprofit suggested that the state entity in charge of protecting the environment had actually violated its own...
08.27.2015 Opinion Guest Spot: Criticisms of Kent Animal Shelter are full of holes Richard Amper, executive director of the Pine Barrens Society, once again lived up to his true form last Wednesday in his latest bid to stop the rebuild of Kent...
08.27.2015 Opinion Guest Spot: Finding a new home for Kent Animal Shelter is a win-win The conflict over the expansion of Kent Animal Shelter in the Core Preservation Area of the Pine Barrens is getting personal. What’s worse, it’s unnecessary.
05.04.2015 Environment Beetlemania: Insect poses long-term threat to Pine Barrens The southern pine beetle, as it turns out, isn’t all that southern anymore. The voracious and highly destructive insect — which decimates millions of cubic feet of timber across...
05.04.2015 Agriculture The life cycle of a southern pine beetle infestation Trees attacked by southern pine beetles go through three stages before the beetles move on: Fresh attacks: Females initiate the attack on the tree, releasing pheremones once a suitable...
03.29.2015 Columns Guest Column: Kent Animal Shelter itself faces homelessness Like the pets we’ve helped all these years, we now find ourselves facing an uncertain future. No one wants to live in a cold house constructed of cement that’s...
03.20.2015 News Before Pine Barrens Commission, Kent shelter seeks to build The facilities at Kent Animal Shelter aren’t enough to meet their needs, representatives of the nonprofit said at a public hearing before the Pine Barrens Commission last week. Plans...
