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Volunteer to Pot Up Seedlings, Wawapek Greenhouse
Thursday, April 17th, 2PM – Volunteer to transfer the seedlings into plug trays that were sown into trays of soil to over the winter. -
Discover Emerging Flora, Manetto Hills Park (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, April 19th, 9:30AM – We are currently at capacity for this event. Please email the Land Alliance to add your name to the waiting list. -
Backyard Composting Workshop, MacDonald Property
Wednesday, April 23rd, 4PM – Learn how to compost garden and yard waste, transforming it into rich top soil for your garden. -
Earth Day Event at the Community Garden, Roosevelt
Saturday, April 26th, 10AM – Volunteer to help tidying garden beds, organizing tools and replenish topsoil in preparation for the growing season. -
Nature App Workshop, Humes Preserve
Friday, May 2nd, 2PM – Learn how to use the features of online, social-sharing nature apps such as iNaturalist, Seek, Merlin and eBird. -
Stargazing Talk and Sky Viewing (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, May 2nd, 6:30PM – Join us for an astronomy presentation and a celestial viewing with telescopes as the full moon draws nigh.
Recent Conservation News
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Community Conservation
Continue readingLand conservation can take several forms. They range from an outright gift of land to the purchase of land to the donation of a permanent, voluntary deed restriction on land called a conservation easement. The parties can include individual landowners, estates (in the case of a post-mortem conservation easement), corporations and partnerships.
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It’s Go Time! The Campaign to Expand the Red Cote Preserve
Continue readingEarlier this year, the Land Alliance was given the opportunity to acquire an additional 4.52 acres of land from the Pulling family to increase the size of the Nassau County-owned Red Cote Preserve located on Yellow Cote Road in Oyster Bay Cove. We are pleased to announce that the Land Alliance has now successfully signed a one-year option agreement to purchase this land for approximately $1.5 million.
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Aquifer Study Released and the News is Not Good
Continue readingThe U.S. is facing a groundwater crisis and Long Island, where our sole source aquifer stores all our water needs in underground reserves, is no exception. In an investigation last year, The New York Times examined data for tens of thousands of wells around the country. In almost half those sites, the amount of groundwater had declined significantly over the past 40 years.
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2024 Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Award
Continue readingThe Land Alliance and its community partners have protected over 1,400 acres of land since 2003. But the noble act of conserving and stewarding land for future generations began long before us. Our community is the beautiful place it is today because of the vision of forward-thinking people who both valued land and understood its important role in a healthy future for us all.