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Volunteer to Remove Mile-a-Minute, Humes Preserve
Saturday, June 14th, 9AM – Volunteer to remove Mile-a-Minute vine to help control its rapid spread and protect native plants at this preserve. -
Shakuhachi Music, John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden
Saturday, June 14th, 11:00 AM – Each month, Daniel Nyohaku Soergel will return to bring the evocative sounds of the Shakuhachi. -
Rotating Photography Exhibit – Opening Reception
Wednesday, June 18th, 4PM – Join us for an evening of art, nature, and refreshments to celebrate the launch of the Rotating Photography Exhibit. -
Photo Exhibit Featuring Jan Guga, Humes Preserve
June 20 – July 17 | Visit Humes Preserve to experience Jan Guga’s photography, which invites us to pause, observe, and reimagine nature. -
Paint, Plant and Sip in the Garden!
Saturday, June 21, 5PM – Enjoy a relaxing evening in the Garden, create your own garden-inspired artwork, and finish by planting in your painted pot. -
Butterflies, Birds & Their Habitat, Old Westbury Gardens
June 26, 2025, 5:30 PM – Learn about the connections between butterflies, birds, and their habitats, with a special focus on the US East Coast.
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.