Can Plum Island, an 843-acre island a mile and a half off the eastern end of Long Island—originally the site in the early 1950s of a U.S. Army laboratory with a mission to develop biological warfare ...
The decades-long effort to turn a tiny island at the eastern approach to Long Island Sound into a nature sanctuary has gotten a big boost from the recently enacted federal budget, which orders the ...
The ecologically sensitive Plum Island could be one step closer to conservation because of language in the newly-passed federal omnibus budget that requires government agencies to communicate about ...