American Littoral Society

SeaQuest Summer--Marine science day camp on Sandy Hook--Sign Up Now: Treat your kids to a week of summer fun and learning. They can get reacqainted with the coast and all it has to offer. Download brochure and registration form.
Feb 1st - Proposal Deadline Approaching Fast! 6th National Conference on Coastal & Estuarine Habitat Restoration - The RAE National Program Committee is accepting proposals for dedicated sessions, presentations, & posters for this conference, which we co-host. To learn more...
Contribute to Our Year-End Appeal: Help us protect and restore the coastal environment for our children, grandchildren, and generations to come. Contribute online using Paypal.
Society Fights JFK Plan to Dump Toxic Chemicals into Jamaica Bay: Don Riepe, Northeast Chapter Director and Jamaica Bay Guardian opposed this plan at a recent meeting of the Jamaica Bay Task Force. To learn more
NJ Fertilizer Law Takes Effect: Help spread the word, not the fertilizer! As of November 15, NJ residents cannot apply fertilizers to their lawns until next spring. Commercial applicators of fertilizer have until December 1 to complete their customer service cycle of late Fall fertilization. Fertilizers cannot be applied onto lawns again until March 1st. NJ’s Fertilizer Law was established as part of the Governor’s 10-point action plan to restore and protect Barnegat Bay and is one of the most stringent fertilizer laws in the country. To learn more
Restoring Shrewsbury Island: On Nov. 6, Society staff and members joined forces with volunteers from the J. M. Huber Corporation to remove marine debris from a dredge spoil island in the Shrewsbury-Navesink estuary, a few miles south of Sandy Hook. To learn more
If You Catch a Tagged Fish: American Littoral Society volunteer fish taggers tag more than 25,000 saltwater fish each year. If you catch a fish with one of our yellow dorsal loop tags, we urge you to report to us. To get the tag return form
In the Littoral Blogoshpere: Our staff and volunteers are gifted naturalists and writers. Check out our blogs to get news that matters to you.To learn more

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Hold NJ Legislators Accountable for dirty water bill. To see how they voted on A4335 and S3156 click here. If they supported this bad bill, email, write, or call to express your opposition to their vote. If they voted no, thank them for supporting clean water and NJ’s environment. To learn more

Tell the DRBC to vote "NO" on new rules that would authorize gas drilling and fracking. To learn more

Tell NJ lawmakers to defend your environmental safeguards: Oppose A2486 & S1986. To learn more

Cape May County towns and residents: Tell the Freeholders to stop passing up millions of dollars in State open space funding. To learn more

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