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Year Five of the LI Water Education Program
Continue readingSince its launch in September 2014, the North Shore Land Alliance Water Education has been actively engaging local students in learning about Long Island’s water resources.
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Food and Climate: The Way Forward Lecture and Panel Discussion
Continue readingThank you to everyone who attended the Food and Climate: The Way Forward lecture and panel discussion at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Monday, October 28, 2019 co-hosted with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, North Country Garden Club, The Nature Conservancy, Three Harbors Garden Club and St. John’s Church (Cold Spring Harbor). It was a wonderful evening addressing an important topic with 225 people in attendance.
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Matheson Meadows Transfer
Continue readingWestern Long Island is not a place one would expect to find vast expanses of meadow habitat, so the passage up Fort Hill Drive in Lloyd Neck, which bisects Matheson Meadows, is an unexpected pleasure. In 1968, Mrs. Anna Matheson Wood, founder and an honorary member of the Three Harbors Garden Club, conveyed the meadows […]
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Humes Meadow Restoration
Continue readingThe Land Alliance acquired the Humes property in Mill Neck on July 10, 2015. The property completes one of the most significant open space corridors on Long Island’s north shore, totaling 150 contiguous acres in the heart of the Beaver Brook watershed. Protection of corridors like Beaver Brook is critically important in the face of […]
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Earth Day at the Roosevelt Community Garden
Continue readingOn April 22, 2019, nearly 50 volunteers including garden members gathered at the Roosevelt Community Garden for the Land Alliance’s Earth Day event.
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Tick Talk, Tick Talk
Continue readingAs the spring season arrives, many people head outdoors – which is a good thing! Unfortunately, and mostly due to climate change, ticks are there waiting for us in greater numbers than ever before. When walking through woods, underbrush, tall grasses or weeds, on your own property or in Land Alliance preserves, the chance of […]
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Golf Outing Sets Record
Continue readingThis year’s Golf and Tennis Outing took place on Wednesday, May 22nd at the beautiful Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley was our most financially successful and largest event to date with 180 guests in attendance! Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty President and Chairman of the Board, Pat Petersen, was honored as a dedicated and […]
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Humes Meadow Update
Continue readingWhen protecting important natural areas land trusts are also protecting parts of history. The significance of the history can range from a simple record of land ownership to detailed accounts of human history and land use. The Humes property in Mill Neck illustrates the latter. Given both the important cultural and natural resources found on […]
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Take the Great Healthy Backyard Pledge
Continue readingThe Land Alliance’s primary purpose is to protect the land that protects our drinking water. Growing awareness about this serious problem of chemicals helps educate people and drives action that improves the lives of our community.
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Golf Courses and Drinking Water
Continue readingAs you may have heard, Senator Carlucci from Rockland County and Assemblywoman Galef from Ossining have introduced enabling legislation, S4420 and A6444 respectively, that would adversely affect many golf courses in New York State. It would allow municipalities to assess New York State golf courses and clubs based on the properties’ highest and best use. […]
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The Importance of Protecting Wetlands
Continue readingMore than half of America’s coastal wetlands, approximately 120 million acres, have disappeared since 1900. Why has this happened?
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What are Wetlands and What We Can Do to Protect them?
Continue readingWetlands are defined by the EPA as areas where water covers the soil or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season.
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Climate Change Conversation
Continue readingOn Wednesday, October 17, 2018, the Land Alliance, in partnership with the North Country Garden Club, hosted an informative, non-partisan and balanced lecture about climate change.
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An Extraordinary Gift for Future Conservation Projects
Continue readingWe are so pleased to announce that this past spring, Sandy and Eric Krasnoff made a very generous gift of $750,000 to the Land Alliance’s Conservation Action Fund (CAF).
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2018 Long Island Food Conference: Food as a Solution Featuring Frances Moore Lappe
Continue readingOn November 3, 2018, LIU Post, Cornell Cooperative Extension, iEat Green, Long Island Cares, Sierra Club, North Shore Land Alliance and others, under the umbrella of the Long Island Food Coalition, hosted a full-day conference titled Food as a Solution. This event brought together a variety of community members and organizations around key topics in food, policy, agriculture and health in a changing climate.
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First Season of the Roosevelt Community Garden
Continue readingNorth Shore Land Alliance, Nassau County and the Roosevelt Community officially launches the the first season at the Roosevelt Community Garden, Roosevelt, New York.
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Discovering the Story of the Humes Property
Continue readingWhen the North Shore Land Alliance acquired the 28- acre Schmidlapp-Humes estate in 2015 and the adjacent 7-acre John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in 2017, the land was protected for its significant ecological value. While historical sites are a small part of the Land Alliance’s mission, acquiring undeveloped land has been our primary objective.
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Highlights from the 2018 O’Neil Conservation Steward Program
Continue readingThanks to the Joyce C. and William C. O’Neil Charitable Trust, the Land Alliance completed another successful year with their O’Neil Conservation Stewards program, which began in 2016.
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Land Alliance Celebrates 15 Years of Land Conservation
Continue readingOn June 2, 2018, the official 15th Anniversary birthday party for members, friends and elected officials was held at the historic Humes property in Mill Neck.
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The Roosevelt Community Garden is Up and Running
Continue readingOn Saturday, June 9, 2018, North Shore Land Alliance and the Roosevelt Community officially opened to the Roosevelt Community Garden.
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Facelifts for Three Preserves
Continue readingAttractive changes are afoot at the entrances of three of the preserves the Land Alliance stewards: Red Cote Preserve, Hope Goddard Iselin Preserve and James Sanctuary.
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MSC Industrial Supply Gives a Helping Hand
Continue readingMSC Industrial Supply has generously volunteered its staff for many years on Land Alliance projects. This year, MSC team members celebrated Earth Day at the newly founded Roosevelt Community Garden.
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Land Alliance Welcomes the 2018 O’Neil Conservation Stewards
Continue readingWe are excited to announce that we have selected three interns for the class of 2018. Our O’Neil Conservation Stewards program is designed to give students a well-rounded experience, providing a glimpse of what the world of environmental nonprofits is like, along with hands-on stewardship experience on Land Alliance properties.
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Humes Property is Coming Back to Life
Continue readingHave you driven by the Humes property in Mill Neck lately? If so, you’ll have seen that the 7+acre meadow has been mowed for the first time in decades.
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Spiffin’ Up
Continue readingWe’re pleased to announce entryway improvements at two of our most-loved preserves: