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Building Local Sustainability
Newsday Op Ed: We Can, And Must Restore Nature On Long Island
Planting A Native Wildflower Garden At “The Roosevelt Estate”
The MTA/LIRR Has An Invasive Plant Problem — And So Do We
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Restoring A River And Triggering The Largest Environmental Restoration Project in US History
Restoring a river begins with the community that lives along it. Love where you are from. Protect it. Heal it. Never give up.
How NOT To Select Street Trees
We need to be far more informed and intentional as to what kinds of trees we plant in our communities. Some LI Towns are better than others here.
Defeating Phragmites
Phragmites is now taken for granted, accepted as part of our environment. That is a grave mistake. This invasive plant destroys local habitat. It can also be managed and in time defeated.
The Dirty Dozen Campaign Begins
The Dirty Dozen Campaign names The Twelve Most UNWANTED Invasive Plants
Announcing The Dirty Dozen Campaign: Our 12 Worst Invasive Plants
“The Dirty Dozen”: The Twelve Worst Invasive Plants on Long Island
We Are All Loraxes Now
We must all be Loraxes now, champions of Nature in our community. Unless someone like us cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.
Sumps Must Become Native Habitat
Stormwater Management Using Native Plantings
Stormwater Management goes hand in hand with planting natives. Natives are drought resistant, so when there is water, they absorb a lot!
Kill Mosquitoes Responsibly
Mosquito dunks are a safe, effective, and inexpensive means of managing mosquitoes in your yard
Spotted Lanternfly: A Major Threat To Our Vineyards and Farms
The Spotted Lanternfly threatens our vineyards
Native Plants For Sale
Come to our “plant raising” July 27th and help Sayville go native!
Native Plants For Sale in Sayville!
Come to our Plant Raising. Native Plants for sale!
The Future Is In Indoor Farming
Come To Our Plant Raiser For Sayville July 27th at 7 @ South Shore Dive
The Long Island Conservancy will be holding a “plant raiser” for Sayville on July 27th at 7 PM at South Shore Dive, a gastropub at 65 West Main, Sayville. We will be supporting native plantings around town, starting with Brookside County Park where we will be planting The Isaac Green Native Garden
Support Local Nature In Sayville and Come To Our “Plant Raiser”!
Invasive Plants On The Menu
Local Stewardship: Rona Fried
Rona Fried is West Hills County Park’s local steward and benefactor. She is funding the removal of invasive plants and the establishment of an American Chestnut Mother Orchard and a seasonal wetland.
Wildflowers and Beer
The Long Island Conservancy was asked to speak at DubCo Brewery about the importance of planting native wildflowers as part of their For Science series, which focusses on environmental issues.
We Will Restore The American Chestnut
We have now a very promising method of returning The American Chestnut from extinction.
All it took was splicing in a wheat gene!
Our Earth Day Message: Planting Native
The Lawn Is An Invasive Species
The lawn describes a chaos of weeds from all corners of the earth fighting it out to make your yard as ugly and lifeless as possible.
Lyme Disease And English Ivy
Book The Long Island Conservancy
Long Island is facing an environmental crisis. What native habitat we have left is rapidly vanishing. We can do something about this.
Go Native This Spring!
Go native in your yard this spring!
Japanese Knotweed: Problem #1
Japanese Knotweed is set to take over. It may be the world’s worst invasive plant, and we have a great deal of it.
We Must Reconnect Habitat: The Legacy of P22
We must reconnect habitat: The fate of P22 tells us how important it is for us to link together local nature. It has been so fragmented by development, our animals have no real home any more.
English Ivy: A Haven For Ticks?
Could it be that English Ivy contributes to the spread of ticks by providing cover for them and for the white-footed mouse?
Harvesting Wildflower Seeds
By harvesting local wildflower seeds from our own yards, we can restore native habitat right here where we live.
It’s Time To Kill Your Lawn
Lawns are expensive, costly to the environment, to our health and well being.
The Suburban Lawn Must Die
We need yards, not lawns. We need to learn what is native and what is not, and go native. Our local animal population is depending on us.
Plant Natives: Create Habitat
We must work to remove invasive plants en masse and plant natives or we will witness the final collapse of our local ecosystems
