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Interested in becoming a Town Steward? We love to get our hands dirty. We are doing extensive habitat restoration work in Nassau County at The Science Museum of Long Island and at Sands Point Preserve, and in Suffolk County at Meadow Croft, aka The Roosevelt Estate, and at West Hills County Park. Through these projects and others, we seek to educate Long Islanders about their native plants and animals. Are you in a civic group that would like to take a more active role in improving local nature? We are here to support and champion your efforts.
A Town Steward Can Create A Park
Perhaps there’s a sump that could be transformed into sanctuaries for pollinators and for birds. There’s about 1000 in each county, invasive choked, mosquito breeding. It doesn’t have to be that way.
A Town Steward Learns His Town
Here are several other tech / media initiatives that we will offer a Town Steward to help them serve their community:
- A Long Island Conservancy email and phone number
- A Local interactive map of your town
- List of local orgs
- Page on the LIC site (proposed projects, donations, volunteers)
- Training with county, town, village policy / access to such information
- An extensive library of information on local flora and fauna
- A network of experts on Long Island’s environments to rely upon
- A professional grade production and social media crew to help get your message out
Town Stewards Learn Their Science
We expect Town Stewards to have a basic knowledge of our plants and animals, and of Long Island’s habitats, particularly their town’s, and would be eager to share that knowledge with their community. Are you ready to promote biodiversity in your town. You should know who Doug Tallamy is. The Long Island Conservancy is driven by a passion for science and for nature. We seek the best available technologies as we seek to restore habitat on Long Island.
- Training on Native vs. Invasive
- Training on Zero Waste
- Training with NYSDEC procedure
Town Stewards Are Digital Creators
Help lead a global movement locally! As a Town Steward, you will be able to draw from our collective expertise, and from a growing digital archive of content specific to Long Island and it’s flora and fauna. With Little Green Shoots, we are lining up Long Island’s leading Native Plant people for interviews. With Little Green Shorts, we produce our PSAs. We believe that a strong production capabilities, the ability to reach people through digital storytelling, are essential to any campaign that aims to change how people behave.
At The Long Island Conservancy, we are finally social entrepreneurs. We are helping to build a movement for native plantings. To accomplish this, we believe that we must tackle our environmental issues at the community level, where it becomes about saving not just a river, or a bay, but a way of life. We all care about where we are from. And we are from Long Island. And it just takes a few at first to begin to make a change.
So we encourage you to contact us about becoming a Town Steward for your town. You will then be in a network of other stewards, both in your town and from the other 13 plus the Glen Cove, Long Beach, and The Shinnecock Nation. Through that network, we will seek to promote best environmental practices for all jurisdictions on Long Island, given our unique geography / topology / challenges. Long Island needs a consistent, coherent plan for its environmental future, one that is guided by science, and has sustainability as its goal. And sustainability is only meaningful if it is achieved at a local level, where energy, water, food, and employment are all close at hand.
Town Stewards Know How To Throw An Event
So if you are interested in learning more about our organization and in discussing how we could help in your town, please contact us below. We put on some great events, ones that help build the native planting community. Plantstock comes to mind. We want to do more of this starting in the spring:
More events to come soon! We can’t wait to get together!