Celebrate National Estuaries Day at the Alley Pond Environmental Center on September 28th

For the past 25 years, National Estuaries Day has been celebrated on the final Saturday in September. With participation from various naturist and environmental organizations, the event promotes the importance of coastal bays, sounds and lagoons and the need to increase their protection and restoration efforts. The Alley Pond Environmental Center will mark the occasion with a celebration in Little Neck Bay, an estuary in Eastern Queens. The festival will feature free boat and canoe rides, educational exhibits and interactive booths from various organizations and neighborhood groups, as well as live entertainment, hands-on demonstrations, crafts and games. There will also be much exploration of the Douglaston venue’s nature trails, traverse ponds, salt marshes, forests and meadows as shore birds and migrating flocks pass through on the way south for the winter.