Long Island

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This page is about Long Island, New York, USA

Contents 1 Environmental 2 Natural History 2.1 Geology 2.2 Ecology 2.3 Flora 2.4 Fauna 3 Regions

[edit] Environmental

₪Environmental Youth Clubs/Organizations

• Energy
• Recycling
• Parks Edgewood Preserve

Open Space Preservation

Calverton Grasslands Coalition for Open Space at EPCAL

LITRIM at Edgewood

• Drinking Water
• Clean Water Campaign-Monitoring Water Quality
• Toxic pollutants

Pesticides

[edit] Natural History

[edit] Geology

Long Island is a large sand spit created by glaciers of the (last?) ice age, and the rocks the glacier pushed all the way to its southernmost reach. Unlike Manhattan, Westchester NY and Fairfield CT counties across the Long Island Sound to the north, Long Island is not situated on bedrock,resulting in a permeable soil.

Surface Water

Groundwater = Drinking Water

[edit] Ecology

• Long Island Pine Barrens

[edit] Flora

New York Plant Atlas lists species by county

[edit] Fauna

LIBirding.com

[edit] Regions

Nassau Wikipedia

Suffolk Wikipedia

North Shore
South Shore
North Fork
South Fork
Hempstead Plains
MidIsland
Long Island Sound
Great South Bay
Peconic Bay
(Brooklyn, Queens)
Jamacia Bay
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