Regional News

Written by a local author and illustrated by a local artist, One Day at Trailside is a charming story that features real staff members and visitors as characters. Available just in time for the holidays!

We're beyond thrilled to invite visitors back inside the Museum, and also to have our resident North American River Otter back home in her brand-new enclosure!

The Metro-South Region has a wonderful AmeriCorps NCCC team working with us across the region on multiple projects until mid October. 

The Nature Center at Stony Brook will be closed to the public beginning January 17. The is a temporary closure while the building undergoes some minor construction.

Recently, a casual tally along the shore of Stony Brook Pond found more than 90 trees and shrubs bearing dramatic evidence of beaver activity within the last several months. Of course, it helps to know why the beavers are wreaking all this havoc in the first place.

Thanks to the generosity and vision of a longtime local family, MABA has grown by nearly three acres! The new addition features a lovely series of rapids on Pequit Brook, which parallels the sanctuary's Main Loop Trail.

This innovative, grant-funded project will enable MABA to create a welcoming community space where students and other visitors can create and discuss collaboration with a focus on science, the environment, and art.