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"Think Globally, Act Locally" -- What you can do:

Click here to participate in the campaigns of the National Parks Conservation Association.

Politicians and bureaucrats hear a lot (and the former receive a lot of money) from special anti-environmental interests who purport to speak for Fire Island residents and visitors. You are urged to convey your opinions in personal letters phone calls to legislators.

FEDERAL--Write to:

Congress: Your congressperson, and also the congressmen who represent Fire Island (Tim Bishop and Steve Israel). Address: House of Representatives, Washington DC. 20515. (If you are not sure who your representative is, click here and type in your ZIP code. However, it is not particularly recommended that you utilize the "send message" option at that site. E-mail messages to Congress are generally ineffective; letters and phone calls are the effective way to reach members.) General Congressional phone number: 202-224-3121.Website: www.house.gov.

Senate: To your senators and the senators from New York State: Charles Schumer (senator@schumer.senate.gov) and Hillary Clinton (senator@clinton.senate.gov). Again, e-mail is not as effective as letters: U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510. (Suggestion: Urge that the U.S. join join 133 other countries in ratifying the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, among whose features are environmental protections.) General Congressional phone number: 202-224-3121. Website: www.senate.gov

Local government (see below).

Also:

President George W. Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC 20500. Phone (comment line) 202-456-1111. Fax: 202-456-2461. Website; WWW.whitehouse.gov.

National Park Service, Ranger Activities Division, PWC, Room 7408, 1849 "C" St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20240.

Sending a copy to: David Spirtes, Superintendent, Fire Island National Seashore, 120 Laurel Street, Patchogue, NY 11772

The town of Brookhaven and tell the much-maligned officials concerned that you support their efforts (attacked by various special interests) to reclaim public space along rights-of-way from the contractors and adjacent property owners who have appropriated it for themselves: Send your letters to: Vincent Dragone, Chief Buildings Inspector, Town of Brookhaven, Buildings Division, 3233 Route 112, Medford NY 11763.

The Suprintendent of Highways is Patricia Stebel; she has juristiction over the much-abused wooden walks. Town of Brookhaven Highway Department, P.O.B. 987, Old Town Road, Coram N.Y. 11727-0987. You might tell her your views regarding the problem of vehicles on the wooden walkways -- to many, too large, too noisy, too polluting, too damaging to the walks, and hogging too much space at the expense of pedestrians.

Updated 22 May 2003