Great day for a road trip! Entered Long Island over the Throgs Neck bridge from Queens around 1:00pn.The first destination Oyster Bay on the Sound side of the lower Island. It was clear and cold in the Bay, even the Osprey nests were empty. There was one brave soul on an outboard not far from...
Southie protects their Plovers….we hope. The Shorebird Protection Program is installed for the season at Carson Beach, and local photographer Judy West took photos of our panels at work, informing and evoking love. The panels at Carson are part of a 14-beach rollout of the program in seven languages. The word is out, and if...
After last night’s emotional opening of the exhibit in honor of the late Mish Michaels (Anuradha Mukherjee) the well-loved meteorologist, everyone gathered atop the newly restored Blue Hill Observatory to enjoy the view and evening breeze. It was a fitting culmination of years of effort by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the architect T2...
I heard an exhibit opened in Philadelphia last week! The Museum of the American Revolution held its largest exhibit opening ever with Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia last Thursday. CDC collaborated with the MoAR team, headed by Aimee Newell, with Matthew Skic, curator, Kathryn Babbs Miller, project manager, and Rebecca Phipps, art director....
An interpretive plan for gators, birds, hunters, and pythons While obscured by the larger adjacent Everglades National Park in most people's consciousness, Big Cypress has a claim to authenticity that its more popular neighbor park does not. Since its establishment in 1974 as the first National Preserve, traditional ways of hunting, fishing, and ethnobotany by the Miccosukee...