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Photos - In - The - News
Deputy County Exerotfr
Park presents trophy to
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prize in recent Nassai
Tournament for non-varsity high school
teams, sponsored by the L.I. Nets basketball team. At
left is Roy Boe, president of Nets. Awards ceremony
was held at half-time in Nets-Floridian game at Island
Gardens.
(center),
won first
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basketball
THEATRE TOUR: Members of Oyster'Say Town's
Teen Repertory Theatre were treated to a backstage
tour at the P. A.F. Playhouse in Huntington Station as
part of their in-service training program following a
performance of "The Miracle Worker." From left to
right are Gary Apple, a member of the Teen Repertory
group from Old Bethpage, Glint Marantz, executive
director of the P.A.F. Playhouse, Oyster Bay Town
Councilman Warren M. Doolittle; and Marguerite'
Lauri of N. Massapequa, another Teen Repertory
performer.
NY State Confirms It: OTonnell's Jump Best
New York State track officials
confirmed, last week'the record-breaking
high jump of Bethpager
William O'Connell, a member of
last year's powerful Golden"
Eagle track squad.
According to Asst. Principal
Frank Leahy, E. E. Kehe,
chairman of the N YS Public High
School Athletic Association
Track Committee, forwarded a;
copy of O'Connell's record ap­plication
for display in the High
School.
O'Connell's 6 ft. 8 in. jump was
one of three records set at a
match in Greenvale last June.
Fred Meder is Coach of the
track team.
Thursday, January 27, 1972
Old Bethpage
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TOH Plans Total Survey
Of Coastal Wetlands
In an effort to assure the
environmental protection
of Hempstead Town's
waterways and their
plants and wildlife,
i l e m p s t e a d Town
Presiding Supervisor
Francis T. Purcell has
authorized the town's.
C o n s e r v a t i o n and
Waterways Department to
make a complete
ecological survey of
Hempstead's 27 square
miles of estuarine
wetlands.
"These wetlands are the
last refuge of nature in a
teeming metropolitan
environment and an
irreplaceable source of
both food and recreation,"
d e c l a r e d P u r c e l l.
"Comprehensive, in-depth
knowledge of the complex
area is vital for its ef­fective
management and
preservation."
A complete ecological
profile of the 17,000 acres
between Rockaway Inlet
and the Oyster Bay Town
line will emerge from the
survey and will serve as
valuable reference data
upon which the town will
base decisions regarding
future uses of the
wetlands. It will give the
C o n s e r v a t i o n and
Waterways Department a
way in which to check the
potential polluting effects
of such future develop­ments
as a proposed off­shore
jetport and other
projects that would have
impact on the area such as
offshore drilling.
"We also plan to make
our study available to the
state, county and federal
governments and to the
new Marine Studies Center
at Stony Brook State
University and other such
organizations that are
taking up the work
pioneered by our Con-,
servation and Waterways
Department," said Pur­cell.
To assure an orderly
approach to the survey,
Harold F. Udell, director
WETLANDS SURVEY: Harold Udell, director of the
Department of Conservation and Waterways, oversees
handling of otter trawl net used in fish census of
Hempstead estuary. Karl. Wendt and Tom Doheny
prepare net for use.
of the Conservation and
Waterways Department,
has divided the entire
wetland area from Oyster
Bay Town to the New York
City line into three zones.
Each zone has been
subdivided into sections
where sampling stations
will be established at
precise locations.
"Under the system,"
stated Udell, "we can
process our data in an
orderly fashion and we will
be able to accurately
reproduce it in whole or in
part at any time in the
future."
The survey will start in
the eastern part of the
wetlands and will progress
westward on a zone-by-zone
basis. Among the
features of the estuary
that will be studied are the
marshes above and the
land below the water, the
p r o p e r t i e s and
hydrographic patterns of
the waters themselves,
and the fauna and flora
that exist on the bottom, on
the marshes and in the
bays.
Samples of the bottom
sediment and substrata
will be taken with corers
and grabs. Water samples
will be collected and
analyzed for their
physical, chemical and
biological properties.
Through trawling and
seining, a fish census will
be taken. Dredges will be
employed to collect and
inventory shellfish.
The sampling and in­ventory
work being done
by the department's field
personnel will be com­plemented
by the
laboratory work carried
on by biologists and
technicians at the Con­servation
and Waterways
facility at Point Lookout.
Complete analyses of
samples will be made to
measure all parameters
having an influence on
primary productivity.
"The ultimate value of
the entire program,"
noted Udell, "will lie in the
fact that everything that
should be known about the
estuarine ecology to en­dure
its optimum main­tenance
and use will be
available. This body of
knowledge, which will be
carefully recorded and
published, will serve as
valuable reference data
upon which to base
decisions regarding future
use of the estuary, and will
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