Imagine the sandy shores of Dumbo, Stuyvesant Cove, Hunters Point, South Beach, and Pelham Bay resplendent with bushes full of white blossoms that grow into delicious fruits akin to fat cherries as summer passes. Or seeing trees at City Hall, or in a school playground just inland from the Newtown Creek, heavy with sublimely [...]
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Dec. 13: Newtown Pippin Apple and Beach Plum Outing!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Flowers, Gardens, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, butterflies, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged apple, beach plum, big apple, briermere farm, Bronx, Brooklyn, dumbo, edible, erik baard, fruit, hunters point, indigenous, long island city, Manhattan, native, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, newtown creek, newtown pippin, nyc, Parks, pelham bay, plum, Queens, riverhead, staten, stuyvesant cove, urban ecology, urban environment on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WildWire: June 21-25
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged audubon, bike new tork, biking, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river alliance, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, clearwater festival, conservancy, Downtown Boathouse, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, fort tryon, gowanus, hiking, hudson river, inwood, just foods, kayaking, lic, long island city, Manhattan, marine park, mike feller, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york restoration, nyrp, orchard beach, peter tagatac, Prospect Park, Queens, queens botanical, recycle-a-bicycle, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, sustainable south bronx, topofthelawn, totten, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, walking, wave hill, wildflowers, wildman steve brill, wildwire on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. As for the loveliness above…never again will you speak ill of Staten Island without feeling [...]
WildWire: June 13-June 18
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged adventures nyc, amateur, Astronomy, audubon, backpacker magazine, battery park city, bike new york, Birds, blue heron, boathouse, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterfly, canoe, Central Park, conservancy, critical mass, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, floyd bennet field, forest park, fort tryon, fort washington, gantry neighborhood parks, great kills, greenpoint, hudson river, inwood hill, inwood hill park, jane bailey, kayak, kayaking, kissena park, lic, mulberry, National Parks Service, nature calendar, nature center, Nature Network, naturecalendar, new york city, new york restoration project, nyrp, park, pelham bay, Prospect Park, river project, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, time's up!, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, volunteer, wagner park, wave hill, willowbrook on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Oh, the burden of choice! With a hyper-fun suite of Adventures NYC events sponsored by Backpacker Magazine adding to our usually full menu of eco-recreation, you may find your head spinning a bit!
As always, FREE is the rule and we have a mix of family-friendly events and adult socials.
A few highlights include: a [...]
WildWire: June 5-June 11
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, wild eyed, tagged alley pond park, alliance, american museum of natural history, amnh, battery park city, biking, Birds, blooming, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river, Brooklyn, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, erik baard, Estuary, Flowers, forest park, free, gantry plaza state park, garden, greenbelt, hudson river, kayak, kayaking, lic community boathouse, long island city, magical garden, Manhattan, marine park, national trails day, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new jersey, new york, new york city, portside new york, Queens, queens west, red hook boaters, ring, riverdale park, riverside, Rocking the Boat, Staten Island, time's up!, tour de queens, trail conference, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, valentino park, van cortlandt park, volunteer, volunteering, wave hill, wildman steve brill on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a weekend and week ahead New York City’s natural world and its stewards offers you! We have a barrel of FREE events, and a couple of cheap ones (as you know, paid events are the great exception on WildWire) that support green allies and cover basic costs.
Highlights include the Tour de Queens, a [...]
WildWire: May 28-June 4
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, tagged american museum of natural history, Astronomy, audubon, bicycling, biking, birding, Birds, blue heron park, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, conference house, cuny, cycling, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, Fish, fort tryon park, fresh kills, gardening, governors island, hayden planetarium, hiking, inwood hill park, kayaking, lic community boathouse, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, manhattanhenge, marine park, naturalist, nature center, neil degrasse tyson, new york city, orchard beach, paddling, Pelham Bay Park, Prospect Park, Queens, safewalk, salt marsh, seining, Staten Island, time's up!, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt park, walking, wildflowers on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s note: Please accept my apologies that some editing and link work must be redone due to a wifi interruption and WordPress/Word glitch. It will be done tonight, but for now you can see the events and most of the needed information.
ALERT! Break out the “sacrificial” champagne. It’s time for Manhattanhenge! Come see the sun [...]
Ridgewood Reservoir Under Threat
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Edible Plants, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Trees, butterflies, wild eyed, tagged anthony como, benzo(a)pyrene, betsy gotbaum, biking, Birds, charles ober, citybirder, cuny, cycling, department of environmental conservation, department of health and mental hygiene, department of parks and recreation, district 30, elizabeth crowley, erik baard, habitat, hiking, historic districts council, indigenous, junfeng zhang, natural resources defense council, nature calendar, new york city, new york environmental law project, nyc, nyc audubon, Plants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Queens, Recreation, ridgewood reservoir, rob jett, rowing, rutgers, special election, sports, steve nanz, terminal morain, tom ognibene, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, william crain, xeriscaping, yellow warbler on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The graveyard’s a fine and verdant place,
But none, I think, do there play ball or race.
…with apologies to Andrew Marvell
by Erik Baard
City Council District 30 in western Queens boasts some of the widest swaths of green in New York City, but much of that consists of cemeteries. The stony highlands of the terminal moraine [...]
WILDWIRE: May 17-21
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, butterflies, tagged alley pond environmental center, american littoral society, bees, biking, Bronx, Brooklyn, buckeye, central park north meadow recreational center, cherry, crabapple, dogwood, Estuary, Fish, fordham university, fort greene park, gardening, green apple tour, green markets, green shores nyc, greenbelt, greenbelt nature center, harlem river, hiking, horseshoe crabs, hudson river, i fish ny, inwood, jose serrano, lic community boathouse, linden, Manhattan, nature walk, new york restoration project, oak, partnerships for parks, planting, Prospect Park, prospect park audubon center, Queens, rainey park, recycle-a-bicycle, red bud, redbud, rocking the apple, rowing, service berry, socrates sculpture park, squirrels, Staten Island, sweetgum, Trees, tulip poplar, urban ecology, urban environment, wave hill, ym-ywha on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WildWire May 17-21
We’re LOADED with FREE outdoor activities this weekend and next week!
But first an important reminder: Bee Watchers 2008 needs volunteers. Scroll down a few days for more details, but here’s the skinny:
Orientation Locations
• Alley Pond Environmental Center: May 19 6:00 PM
• Central Park-North Meadow Recreation Center: May 21 6:00 PM
• Greenbelt Nature Center: [...]
Plight of the Bumble Bee: Volunteers Needed!
Posted in Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Flowers, Gardens, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, butterflies, wild eyed, tagged alley pond, american museum of natural history, amnh, audubon center, backyard, bee, bee watchers 2008, bees, bumblebee, center for biodiversity and conservation, community garden, east harlem, ecology, elizabeth johnson, environmental, fordham university, garden, green roof, greenbelt, kevin cox, kevin matteson, native plant, new york city department of parks and recreation, park rangers, Parks, Plants, pollinators, Prospect Park, south bronx, Staten Island on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
There can be no local foods, community garden, and green spaces movement in New York City without a healthy bee population, and that’s a resource we could lose. Our first defense is simply to look a little more carefully at our backyards and gardens.
Bee Watchers 2008 wants to train you to observe [...]
