The Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor has wrapped up its second year of participation in New York’s Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Network, a statewide effort that tracks horseshoe crab populations and migration patterns while giving volunteers a firsthand role in marine conservation.
The coalition joined the network last year to establish a monitoring site at Tappen Beach in Glenwood Landing, filling what organizers said was an important gap along the North Shore.
The monitoring network is a collaboration among the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. It was modeled after a similar monitoring effort in Delaware in response to the declining population of Atlantic horseshoe crabs…