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Exploring The Life Underground: The Fungus Among Us

West Hills County Park Ridge Drive and Overhill Road, Melville

Soil health is essential to forest health. But what constitutes soil health? Biologist Frank Piccininni takes us on a journey to the life underground at West Hills County Park. There, he will show how fungal networks help determine the composition of the forest above, what trees and plants flourish where, and how invasive plants disturb the order of things below and therefore above.

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Beautification in Bay Shore: Talking Native Plants

Bay Shore / Brightwaters Public Library 1 South Country Road, Brightwaters

Bay Shore Beautification, an organization newly formed to bring green practices and native greenery to the community, is hosting a public discussion of how that could be achieved, whether in the community's parks and public spaces or in one's own yard.