Long Island Pine Barrens Society

Richard “Dick” Amper, a fierce advocate for the Long Island pine barrens, and widely regarded as the driving force behind the passage of the Pine Barrens Protection Act, died Monday at age 81.

The Riverhead-based Butterfly Effect Project was among 15 nonprofit organizations awarded a total of $378,000 by the Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund in support of their efforts to advance social change.

Corn mazes and agritainment, greenhouses, processing facilities and commercial horse boarding operations are among uses 'sufficiently related to agricultural production' and therefore permitted on preserved farmland, an Appellate Division panel ruled yesterday.

Pending legislation in Albany would allow on preserved farmland any development or activity included in the definition of "farm operation" under the state Ag & Markets Law.

Kent Animal Shelter outgrew its cramped, deteriorating facilities at the edge of the Pine Barrens many years ago, but its plans for expansion are no closer to approval today than they were in 2012, when Kent first proposed them.

I’ve been working for more than 25 years to protect water quality and preserve open space. I’ve rarely experienced the kind and degree of...

Op-ed by George Goode: Richard Amper's hyperbole about the Kent Animal Shelter is the kind of spectacle that's made people lose respect for our political system, where a special interest group can tie our government in knots. Here's why he's wrong, point by point.

The forum, hosted by the state pine barrens commission, will discuss controversial plans aimed at reducing wildfire risk in Flanders-area pine barrens region.