Category: Habitat Restoration
If You Want to Combat Lyme Disease, Bring On the Foxes!
Long Island has one of the heaviest tick-borne disease burdens in the country. Suffolk County alone reports hundreds of confirmed Lyme cases each year, alongside steady caseloads of babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis, and — more recently — a growing tail of alpha-gal syndrome and surveillance signals for emerging Heartland and Bourbon viruses. Our public health…
Fighting Invasive Plants At Meadow Croft
The invasive plant problem at Meadow Croft is a generational challenge. AKA “The Roosevelt Estate,” it stands on a fork in Brown’s River, which separates Sayville from Bayport on Long Island’s South Shore. The estate was deeded to Suffolk County, and is now a park, with the house itself in the care of The Bayport…
Buy Tyska Native Plants At Plantstock!
Buy your native plants from Dan Tyska, especially the obscure ones!
Spring is here! 4 Must Attend Events For Your Spring Saturdays
Plantstock V – April 19th, 2025 Spring is here yet again! And so is Plantstock V! From 10-2 on Saturday, April 19th, at Hamlet Organic Garden in Brookhaven Hamlet, we will gather once more to promote native plants! We will be offering for sale a variety of milkweeds to support our monarch populations, and to…
Let Our Waters Run Free! No More Dams!
Long Island needs to let its waters run free. Let’s stop damming our rivers and creeks
Invasive Species and Our Natives: Essential Knowledge
It is imperative that we learn the difference between invasive species and native ones if we are to restore habitat on Long Island
The Native Yard After 3 1/2 Years
The Native Yard: Leaving The Native Leaves I have come to a decision regarding our native yard: This year we are ‘leaving the leaves.’ More than that, we will be leaving native leaves in our native yard, and right where they fell, beneath the plants they are from. That way the plants benefit from the…
Planting A Native Wildflower Garden At “The Roosevelt Estate”
On Monday, October 9th, on Indigenous Planting Day (formerly Columbus Day), The Long Island Conservation Alliance planted a native wildflower garden at The Meadow Croft Estate in Sayville – Bayport. On Indigenous Planting Day, students and parents will have a day out together in nature, to plant in the fall for the following spring. It…
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.
The Dirty Dozen Campaign Begins
The Dirty Dozen Campaign names The Twelve Most UNWANTED Invasive Plants
