Author: marshall
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
The Future Is In Indoor Farming
Indoor farming is now a necessity. For the last 12,000 years, with the end of the last Ice Age, we have been farming mostly outdoors. The megafauna that often fed our hunter/gatherer ancestors disappeared with the melting ice, driven to extinction by climate change, and not from overhunting from hominids, as had been previously proposed.…
Invasive Plants On The Menu
This 2023 NY Invasive Species Awareness Week (June 5 -11),we were approached by GROWExternships, a non-profit organization that trains young people from disadvantaged communities on how to restore native habitat. They were planning a fundraiser lunch, and wanted to come out from New York City to forage here on Long Island for invasive plants to put…
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 Conservation Alliance 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!
