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Land Alliance Earns National Recognition
Continue readingNorth Shore Land Alliance is proud to announce that we have been reaccredited by the national Land Trust Alliance – proving once again that, as part of a network of over 400 accredited land trusts across the nation, we are committed to professional excellence and to maintaining the public’s trust in our conservation work.
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O’Neil Conservation Stewards Reflect on Their Experience
Continue readingAs we wrap up the fourth year of our college internship program, we thought it important to reach out to some of our past interns.
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Strategic Village Parcel Conserved
Continue readingThe Land Alliance is pleased to announce the donation of the 193 Underhill Road property in Matinecock. The parcel, consisting of 2.3 acres, was given to the Land Alliance by Mr. and Mrs. James MacDonald and family.
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Critters Love Messy Gardens
Continue readingTempting as it might be to “clean up” the garden and your yard for winter, as far as wildlife is concerned, it’s best to leave them as is for the season. “Messy is definitely good to provide food and shelter for birds during the cold winter months,” says Tod Winston, Audubon’s Plants for Birds program […]
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Food and Climate Change: The Way Forward
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 28th 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 […]
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Season Two at the Roosevelt Community Garden
Continue readingLand Alliance concludes season two at the Roosevelt Community Garden with 16 new garden members and more educational programs for the community.
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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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Holiday Waste Alert!
Continue readingDuring the period between Thanksgiving and New Years, the waste we produce rises 25%. According to the EPA food waste, shopping bags, wrapping, packaging and all we pitch at this time of year contribute an extra 1 million tons a week to our landfills. As you prepare for the holidays, don’t forget your reusable bags, […]
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Nixon Peabody Volunteer Day at Shore Road Sanctuary
Continue readingNixon Peabody, LLP assist with a beach cleanup and cutting invasive Phragmites at Shore Road Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor.
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Invasive Species Awareness Week
Continue readingVolunteers removed garbage bags full of the invasive from the meadow at Hope Goddard Iselin Preserve in Upper Brookville.
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Meadow Cleanup with Girl Scout Troop #1805
Continue readingGirl Scout Troop #1805 participated in a meadow cleanup at the North Shore Land Alliance Humes property in Mill Neck. In addition to removing porcelain-berry..
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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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2019 O’Neil Conservation Stewards
Continue readingNorth Shore Land Alliance welcomes Julia Damiano, Samantha Pepe, and Jeanne Wu to our 2018 O’Neil Conservation Stewards program. We look forward to providing these young conservationists with an opportunity to gain valuable conservation-related experience.
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Volunteers Help to make Open Space Greener
Continue readingNorth Shore Land Alliance thanks the many active volunteers who contribute their time and energy to help us accomplish our mission.
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Spring Occurrences in Local Preserves
Continue readingLocal nature preserves are emerging from winter bursting with color and vibrant early spring growth. Among the ones you will not want to miss are:
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The State of Long Island’s Drinking Water
Continue readingIn 2017, every major bay and estuary across Long Island was afflicted by toxic algal blooms or oxygen-starved waters or both.
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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.