Late Afternoon in the Hop and Bark Park

It became publicly accessible in 1972. Gardiner State Park is a 231-acre preserve located on route 27A in West Bay Shore.

It is among the popular attractions in Islip township, New York. Summer dusk is closing in on a south shore Long Island, canine-friendly park where the bunnies hop and hounds bark.

Footstep by footstep, paw by paw, this book explores the rustic nature at a Suffolk County preserve.

Here is Curtis W. Jackson's visual essay illustrating a subtle contrast between humankind and mammal's impact.