David Weld Preserve
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Dickinson Avenue Elementary School
Dickinson Avenue Elementary
120 Dickinson Avenue East Northport, NY 11731-1099
East Northport, L.I.: Good Schools, Good Neighbors
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/realestate/east-northport-li-good-schools-good-neighbors.html?_r=0
Saturday, September 13, 2014
2013 Earth day
http://www.avalonparkandpreserve.org/STATE/photos/Photos-2013/photos-2013-4Apr.html
Alive Outside Festival
Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown
Sunday, April 21st
The Earth Day weekend celebrations continued at Smithtown Historical Society's Come Alive Outside festival. Again, guests were delighted by different outdoor activities, from clam-raking to bubble blowing. Our volunteers helped facilitate the painting of fence pieces that would surround the new community garden, which we also had a hand in helping to create and plant. Truck Farm joined us again, sending kids home with beans in plastic bags, all ready to sprout and be planted in pots and gardens all over the island. We love getting folks of all ages excited about nature and the great outdoors!
Turtleback Farm
http://www.avalonparkandpreserve.org/STATE/photos/Photos-2013/photos-2013-3Mar.html
Turtleback Farm, Smithtown, NY
Wednesday, March 27th
What's better in the springtime than an afternoon on a farm with lambs, chickens, and plenty of work to keep a roving group of volunteers busy? First, we installed two bluebird boxes, as New York's state bird had been spotted there earlier in the season, and areas of the farm are prime habitat for the bluebirds. Next, we disassembled, relocated, and remade the farm's pig pen. It is moved each year so that the area it had been can become an incredibly fertile garden. We loved the volunteer's ship design for this year's pen! Lastly, we planted some peas in freshly tilled land to give a warm, enthusiastic welcome to the 2013 growing season. All the while. FIOS1 news was following us around and interviewing volunteers for an Earth Day special. What a fun, productive day!
First Seeds At Arcadia
First Seeds at Arcadia
Avalon Park and Preserve, Stony Brook
Thursday, March 28th
Early spring in the garden is always a head-scratcher. We find ourselves thinking back on the late-summer garden of the previous year, wondering how it's possible that these stark beds could ever grow such bounty again. But we pull the weeds, plant our seeds, sprinkle them with water, and hope for the best. Of course, they always grow into big, healthy plants, producing the best vegetables we've ever tasted in a matter of months. All it takes is patience, care, and a lot of love!
Beach Clean - Ups, West Meadow Beach
West Meadow Beach - Friends of Flax Pond
http://www.flaxpondfriends.org/volunteer.html
Flax Pond
Flax Pond is a salt marsh on the north shore of central Long Island, cradled between Crane Neck Point and Old Field Point, north of the village of Stony Brook.
The Pond is jointly owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The University operates a marine laboratory with recirculating sea water and facilities for incubating and growing marine plants and animals.
The University uses the Pond as a research facility. Local residents have expressed concern about apparent deterioration of water quality, loss of spartina and continuing loss of fish and shellfish populations.
There is also a community concern about inappropriate development around the Pond's perimeter including docks, removal of spartina beds and damage caused by boat wakes.
Local residents have approached the Conservancy about ways of enhancing protection of the Pond and rehabilitation of its living resources.
SBEC works closely with the Friends of Flax Pond (FFP) through winter lectures, horseshoe crab and turtle surveys, and advocacy for legislation leading to higher legal protection for the Pond.
http://www.gushi.org/~sbec/flaxpond.shtml
Related Links:
Flax Pond, a Long Island Salt Marsh
"Spring Tides" by Wendy Fidao. An essay on the annual mating ritual of horseshoe crabs in Flax Pond.
USGS National Water Informant System
https://www.facebook.com/longislandsoundstudy.net?viewas
http://longislandsoundstudy.net/
http://www.flaxpondfriends.org/volunteer.html
Flax Pond is a salt marsh on the north shore of central Long Island, cradled between Crane Neck Point and Old Field Point, north of the village of Stony Brook.
The Pond is jointly owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The University operates a marine laboratory with recirculating sea water and facilities for incubating and growing marine plants and animals.
The University uses the Pond as a research facility. Local residents have expressed concern about apparent deterioration of water quality, loss of spartina and continuing loss of fish and shellfish populations.
There is also a community concern about inappropriate development around the Pond's perimeter including docks, removal of spartina beds and damage caused by boat wakes.
Local residents have approached the Conservancy about ways of enhancing protection of the Pond and rehabilitation of its living resources.
SBEC works closely with the Friends of Flax Pond (FFP) through winter lectures, horseshoe crab and turtle surveys, and advocacy for legislation leading to higher legal protection for the Pond.
http://www.gushi.org/~sbec/flaxpond.shtml
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