Hoyle Jones Wildlife Corridor

The Hoyle Jones Wildlife Corridor The Land Alliance Board and Staff are very pleased to announce the dedication of a beautiful and environmentally significant seven-acre parcel along Frost Mill Road in Mill Neck in honor of Board Chair Emeritus Hoyle Jones. Hoyle’s unwavering support for local land conservation drove his Land Alliance leadership for eight years. Generous contributions from the community will enable the Land Alliance to improve the quality of the parcel to a standard of which Hoyle would have been proud. Improvements will include construction of a new entrance and trail extension with boardwalk, removal of invasive shrubs and vines and installation of beautiful native understory plantings. The project will begin as soon as our DEC permits are in hand. Invasive species removal will occur on about an acre, mostly outside the wetland core (where highly invasive burning bush, Japanese holly and Asian bittersweet vine have taken hold). A diversity of native plantings will be added to these areas, which will be protected with back country deer fencing. Our plant list includes for starters: spicebush (Lindera benzoin) summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) swamp azalea (Rhododendron viscosum) sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) red maple (Acer rubrum) red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) royal fern (Osmunda regalis) sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis) soft rush (Juncus effusus) We are incredibly grateful to Hoyle for his commitment to local land conservation and also to Nazee and Roddy Klotz and the Paul & Maxine Frohring Foundation for setting us on our way. For additional information and/or to learn more about how to support the Hoyle Jones Wildlife Corridor, please call the Land Alliance at 516-922-1028.

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