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Pine Barrens / Central Suffolk

Stretching across Brookhaven, Riverhead and Southampton towns, Long Island's Pine Barrens region sits atop an aquifer that is the Island's largest source of pure drinking water – a key reason conservationists fought hard for a development-free core area that's almost five times the size of Manhattan.
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Conservationists have fought hard to preserve the Pine Barrens

Stretching across Brookhaven, Riverhead and Southampton towns, Long Island's Pine Barrens region sits atop an aquifer that is the Island's largest source of pure drinking water – a key reason conservationists fought hard for a development-free core area that's almost five times the size of Manhattan.

Hiking in the Near Wilderness

DAY PACKS bulging with trail mix, spare socks and enough bug spray to outfit an African safari, 18 hikers met at a rural crossroads one recent Saturday to explore a chunk of Long Island's largest natural area -- the 100,000 acres of scrub trees, ponds and salt marshes known collectively as the Pine Barrens.

Immersing in a Hands-On Sea World

THOSE SOULFUL EYES. That cute little nose. Those jaunty flippers. With such an appealing group of harbor seals frolicking year-round in the front yard, who could resist a visit to Riverhead's new Atlantis Marine World to see what all the barking is about?
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