Prospect Park announced as a Blue Belt Storm mitigation site

• News 12: Brooklyn to receive $68M to alleviate flooding to Prospect Park, surrounding areas
• CBS 4: Brooklyn's Prospect Park to receive $50 million in flood-mitigation improvements
• Brooklyn Paper: City to build build 'nature-based' flash flood protections in Prospect Park
• BK Reader: New Bluebelt in Prospect Park Poised to Tackle Brooklyn Flooding
• Gothamist: NYC wants Prospect Park to drain more of Central Brooklyn's floodwater

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" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Tend a real winter garden this year - New Jersey Conservation Foundation

https://www.njconservation.org/winter-garden/

Important read for preservation of creatures and ecology

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."

Mary Ann Evans ( pen name George Eliot) 18th c author














   

Brown pelican sightings in NYC could mean the southern birds are here to stay, according to scientists - CBS New York

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brown-pelicans-nyc-jamaica-bay-birds/

" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

The real truth about lawns

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FLQF6Tvo7/

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change."

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web










   

4 sparrow marsh restoration

Back in its heyday, a freat wilsons snipe spot

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" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Chicago Building Where Nearly 1,000 Birds Died in One Night Last Fall Installs Bird-Safe Window Film | Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chicago-building-where-nearly-1000-birds-died-in-one-night-last-fall-installs-bird-safe-window-film-180984755/

Finally after a long time, a notorious bird strike deathtrap gets remedied on a renown flyway Lake Michigan shoreline.

"The one who plants trees knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life."

— Rabindranath Tagore



   

How to make a bug hotel in your backyard as insect populations decline - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/23/how-make-bug-hotel-insect-decline-bees/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzODQ0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MjI3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM4NDQ4MDAsImp0aSI6ImFjMzdlMjlmLWM5MTgtNDdiNC04ZTM2LTYyYTlhYmU3NzVlOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjMvaG93LW1ha2UtYnVnLWhvdGVsLWluc2VjdC1kZWNsaW5lLWJlZXMvIn0.oB1VierpuiOColnmL5TfibPI34WwnbBYpfH9FQxjFns&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3krMrR0F8A__srDc5B9rwffj1hO3GjHXAr5mxPHZRY-uhg3X1z3i66ezg_aem_AeCB0J2Mg1kP4u9oZNxzOO3NZhcrz2SsZvpFdzpaa4N6vcus-HkCv9vIYrQvCCM47__2BQDEzfHvrfBRKibEIMt8

Bald eagles residents in Staten. Island

https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/bald-eagle-population-soars-in-nyc/?fbclid=IwAR1MY2Sxmtf3uRVkKaBNpR0cLMJHCRVyWSo2lu646SKJsTGBdQ0sTtelPrk

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished" --Lao Tzu

Horseshoe crabs get new protections thanks to valuable blue blood – NBC New York

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/blue-blood-from-horseshoe-crabs-is-needed-for-medicine-but-a-declining-bird-relies-on-crabs-to-eat/4550837/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand&fbclid=IwAR2oOpq6iLlOtPQnXLbYhdovcJ2MylrlI_Cjtq9wCkfR81BSpuh7wenQ9PU

Amid the Sprawl, a Long Island Prairie Makes a Quiet Comeback - Yale E360

https://e360.yale.edu/features/hempstead-plains-long-island-wildlife-conservation-gardens

The tragedy of habitat loss because of over development. Imagine the beauty and wildlife of a vast grassland?

See All A Tree Can Be

https://www.arborday.org/a-tree-can-be/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_campaign=08616&utm_content=S0004201-awareness&fbclid=IwAR1RkaCFrb0AaCIVB5hs3ikaIvHdg7pEWfQwspA1YqJszHYvsht125mOgvs

The Many Secrets of Jamaica Bay in “Greywater” | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-many-secrets-of-jamaica-bay-in-greywater

Congratulations to Don!

With spotted lanternflies reproducing at ‘alarming rate,’ city urged to help control the pests on Staten Island

https://silive.com/news/2022/08/with-spotted-lanternflies-reproducing-at-alarming-rate-city-urged-to-help-control-the-pests-on-staten-island.html 

The Society Blog - Littoral​ Society Action Alert horseshoe crabs

https://www.littoralsociety.org/blog/action-alert-urge-asmfc-not-to-lift-ban-on-harvesting-female-horseshoe-crabs

https://scienceline.org/2022/07/making-the-city-that-never-sleeps-safer-for-birds/?s=03 

From Friends of Liberty State Park..

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/07/protect-caven-point-peninsula-but-no-backroom-deals-jersey-journal-editorial.html?fbclid=IwAR11EGc4Chphe3bXcaISd9lY2_AWbkuz424A-qP3ku_FQ_v-2ir6fhg0oRU 

Friends of LSP Facebook post

"Powerful Jersey Journal editorial on Senator Brian P. Stack crucial protection bill for LSP's Caven Point Natural Area -and urging no backroom deals in legislature. Governor Phil Murphy -this is another true colors test for you after you failed to support the LSP Protection Act!  Will you support protecting this natural urban treasure for people & wildlife & finally say NO to Paul Fireman and his paid or bought off surrogates' lies about LSP?

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/07/protect-caven-point-peninsula-but-no-backroom-deals-jersey-journal-editorial.html"

How US forests affect the environment and help stabilize the climate - USAFacts

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-us-forests-affect-the-environment-and-help-stabilize-the-climate/ 

Helping young birds during breeding season - BirdWatching

https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/beginners/helping-birds/helping-young-birds-during-breeding-season/

Tweet from Corina Newsome, M.Sc. (@hood_naturalist)

Corina Newsome, M.Sc. (@hood_naturalist) tweeted at 6:16 PM on Tue, Jun 14, 2022:
RECOVERING AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ACT JUST PASSED IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!!!!!!!

This legislation is DECADES in the making and has never made it this far. Thank you to everyone who called, wrote, and made your voices heard!!!!!!!
#RecoverWildlife
(https://twitter.com/hood_naturalist/status/1536834998900338688?s=03)

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Jamaica Bay horseshoe crab poaching American Legion ballfields shoreline

https://www.facebook.com/100002128627891/posts/5318889408191961/?sfnsn=mo 

If you see poaching  do call US Park Police

US Parks Police Number is 718-338-3988