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.
Tag: habitat restoration
The Right To Native Plants
Increasingly, people are challenging local zoning laws and home owner’s association rules governing how one maintains one’s yard, asserting our right to native plants
Saving Turtles: Protecting The Nests
Saving turtles at Meadowcroft will be challenging. The six snapping turtle nests on the lawn were clearly predated by raccoons — not mowed over as some were quick to claim. Getting people to accept this explanation will be half the problem. The other half will be covering the nests well enough that the raccoons can’t dig the nests out.
We Champion LI’s Native Plants
The Long Island Conservancy and Marshall Brown are champions for native plants and for local habitat restoration. We need to plant natives in our yards as habitat for local wildlife.
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.
Going Native
By going native, everyone can contribute to improving the local ecology, creating habitat for our local creatures.
Sayville Goes Native!
Bring a little Nature home April 23rd in Sayvlle. Come by, learn about and pick up some native plants, and help Sayville restore precious habitat.
Destroying a Freshwater Wetland to Dump Dredge Spoils?
Bureaucratic momentum led to the destruction of rare habitat. We as Long Islanders and as New Yorkers need to take a lesson: We must begin to stand for what pockets of nature remain. If they go, then what?
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
Wisteria Is A Misery
A truly dreadful invasive plant would be wisteria. Prized for its flowers, this asian import is strangling trees everywhere.