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  • Climate Change Conversation

    On 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

    We 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

    On 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.

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  • First Season of the Roosevelt Community Garden

    North 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

    When 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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  • O'Neil Stewards working at the Humes Meadow

    Year Three of the O’Neil Stewards Program

    Thanks to a generous five-year grant from the Joyce C. and William C. O’Neil Charitable Trust, the Land Alliance continued its college intern program begun in May 2016.

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  • Land Alliance Celebrates 15 Years of Land Conservation

    On 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

    On 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

    Attractive 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

    MSC 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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  • 2018 O'Neil Conservation Stewards

    2018 O’Neil Conservation Stewards

    We 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

    Have 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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  • Fall nature walk

    Spiffin’ Up

    We’re pleased to announce entryway improvements at two of our most-loved preserves:

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  • Record Funding for the EPF

    We are pleased to report that the Environmental Protection Fund received another record year of funding at $300 million to support land conservation, water quality improvement, parks creation, farmland protection, urban conservation and other environmental quality and public health improvement projects in every county of New York.

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  • Land Alliance Celebrates 15 Years

    The Land Alliance is turning 15! Many people judge success in terms of metrics like how many acres protected (nearly 1,200), how many members (3,200+ families), how many conservation easements (21), how many preserves open to the public (9), how many children educated (4,400) per day. In addition, the subjects of the groupgrain foods for […]

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  • Seven Acre Easement in Oyster Bay Cove

    North Shore Land Alliance is currently working with Debbie and Howard Grace to acquire seven acres of their property in the Village of Oyster Bay Cove through a bargain sale transaction.

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  • 514 Species Documented in the Beaver Brook BioBlitz

    The Land Allianc worked with a stalwart crew of 35 volunteers for its first Beaver Brook BioBlitz, on Saturday, June 3, 2017 to inventory species living in a given area at a given time

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  • 2018 Walks in the Wood Preview

    North Shore Land Alliance 2018 Walks in the Woods is a series of free, educational and interactive explorations.

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  • Humes Stroll Garden

    Humes Japanese Stroll Garden is Officially Acquired

    North Shore Land Alliance officially acquired the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden property on May 23, 2017.

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  • Macy Property in the Village of Lloyd Harbor is Preserved

    North Shore Land Alliance is proud to announce that the Macy property in the Village of Lloyd Harbor has been preserved.

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  • America’s National Parks and Monuments Are Under Attack

    National monuments are nationally important lands and waters that are set aside for permanent protection, primarily by U.S. presidents under the Antiquities Act. A president may also set aside land or water assets as a national monument and then Congress can change that land’s designation to another type of national park site.

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  • Year Two of the O’Neil Stewards Program

    Our evaluation committee of conservation professionals reviewed 21 applications this year and chose four members for the Joyce and William O’Neil Stewards Program class of 2017.

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  • Roosevelt Community Garden Project

    North Shore Land Alliance, in partnership with Nassau County and the Long Island Community Foundation, is in the process of establishing a community garden in Roosevelt on a 10,000-square foot property owned by the County

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  • Girl Scouts

    Scouts Make a Difference

    Girl Scout Cadette Troop #1805 of Mineola spent a sunny afternoon with the Land Alliance cleaning up the shoreline at Shore Road Sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor. The girls were helpful in discovering a delicate nest of a Killdeer (a shorebird related to the Piping Plover) who had decided to make her home next to […]

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  • Land Alliance Will Purchase the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden

    After more than two years of negotiation, the North Shore Land Alliance has signed a contract to purchase the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in Mill Neck from the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden Foundation.  This approximately seven-acre parcel, immediately adjacent to the 28-acre former Humes Estate (which the Land Alliance acquired in July of 2015), was […]

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