Category: Habitat Restoration
Announcing The Dirty Dozen Campaign: Our 12 Worst Invasive Plants
“The Dirty Dozen”: The Twelve Worst Invasive Plants on Long Island
We Are All Loraxes Now
We must all be Loraxes now, champions of Nature in our community. Unless someone like us cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.
Sumps Must Become Native Habitat
Your first question must be “So why MUST we create native habitat in our sumps? Your second question will likely be “what is a sump anyway?” Long Island: Land of Sumps Lets tackle the second question first. A sump is a basin that collects runoff. With all the asphalt and houses that were laid atop…
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!
Our Earth Day Message: Planting Native
The mission of the Long Island Conservation Alliance is to help communities restore native habitat, whether in their open spaces or in their own yards. We support local stewardship, working with municipalities to teach the public about the importance of planting native. The future of our native wildlife depends on how well we can protect…
Book The Long Island Conservation Alliance
Long Island is facing an environmental crisis. What native habitat we have left is rapidly vanishing. We can do something about this.
Go Native This Spring!
Go native in your yard this spring!
We Must Reconnect Habitat: The Legacy of P22
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.
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
