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Campaign aims to restore Stony Brook creekside classroom damaged by Sandy
Set inside an 88-acre wetlands preserve in Stony Brook, two portable classrooms have provided thousands of students a unique place to study fiddler crabs, blue mussels, jingle shells, egrets and other marine life in their natural habitat. For more than 60 years, the Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s Ernst Marine Conservation Center has been sparking kids’ and teens’ interest in science -- even...