Category: Local Stewardship
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
Volunteers Get To Work at “The Roosevelt Estate”
On November 11th, Fifty volunteers came to help weed out at “The Roosevelt Estate” aka Meadow Croft in Sayville.
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
Learn Native Gardening at Plantstock!
Plantstock is a gathering at Hamlet Organic Garden in Brookhaven Hamlet centered around native gardening. It’s aim is to bring together native plant lovers and environmental advocates from all over Long Island so that we together can continue to build a movement centered around habitat restoration and local stewardship in every community.
Save Our Sacred Trees
This last week, I met the most wonderful sacred trees. I came to visit them because they are in grave danger, and the Long Island Conservation Alliance was asked to help. The Sacred Beech Tree Last week I came to visit a sacred beech in Southampton at The Shinnecock Nation. The tree is being threatened…
Building Local Sustainability
It all comes down to local sustainability. When we founded The Long Island Conservation Alliance not too long ago, it was with the conviction that we would be driven by both science and community to create a livable future place by place. On the science side, we are passionate learners, and seek those across Long…
Newsday Op Ed: We Can, And Must Restore Nature On Long Island
Newsday asked Frank and I to write an Op Ed, which came out Oct 10th, 2023: We Can, and Must Restore Nature On Long Island Apologies to all those firewalled from it. I will just editorialize on the editorial then. For me, it’s a matter of this: Now that you know these things, how will…
