When you donate to support local nature, you are supporting local stewardship. In every community, there are local civic groups or passionate stewards who whether formally or informally tend to our parks and open spaces. If there is a park or woods, or pond, marsh, or lake in your community that you care about, we can help you determine what it would take to restore that habitat, and how you would go about gathering the resources necessary for the task.
How We Work To Support Local Nature
We support local nature by staying locally focused and project based. In our day jobs, we restore native habitats, relying on the best available science on Long Island’s ecologies. We know the cost of labor and equipment, we know how to source native plants in bulk, and, crucially, we know how best to plant and to maintain them. We know budgets and timelines. We believe in implementing, in taking theory and putting into practice.
Our EIN Number is 38-4338831. We have applied for Tax Exempt Status, that is 501(c)3 non-profit status, and your donation will be tax exempt retroactive to the date of our initial request. Thank you for your generosity and for your supporting local nature on Long Island!
The choice of an American Chestnut leaf is no accident. We are working to help restore this majestic tree here locally. Read here to learn about the tragedy of The American Chestnut, and how it fell victim to a blight that began in 1904 with the importation of a sick Asian Chestnut.
Support Local Nature: Help Bring Back The American Chestnut
For those interested in becoming part of the grand effort to restore The American Chestnut, The Long Island Conservancy is selling “Mother Orchards” consisting of eight American Chestnut saplings that in around seven years time, if all goes well, start to produce blight resistant chestnuts.
You can buy a Mother Orchard here and with that enter into an historic effort. The saplings you plant now will in turn be the source of blight resistant chestnuts when it comes time for them to flower. The details of the program can be found here. The chestnut trees will also be a local ecotype, since the chestnuts were hand pollinated and gathered from local trees that sprouted from the still living roots of local American Chestnut trees.
Where In Your Community Should We Look To Support Local Nature?
Perhaps our largest project is at Leeds Pond Preserve / The Science Museum of Long Island. We’ve battled Kudzu, Japanese Knotweed, Oriental Bittersweet, Mugwort, and other invasive plants while planting in native Oaks, Red Maples, and Viburnum to name a few.
Please let us know if there is a particular use you’d like to see your donation go to — how would you most like to see us support local nature. If you would also like to volunteer, if volunteering is your way of giving, please click here to Volunteer For Local Nature.
It also helps to read our blog posts. There is much that people need to know about our local plants and animals — if we are to keep them. That’s how you can support local nature.
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