Book The Long Island Conservancy

Long Island is facing an environmental crisis. What native habitat we have left is rapidly vanishing. We can do something about this.

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The Right To Native Plants

Increasingly, people are challenging local zoning laws and home owner’s association rules governing how one maintains one’s yard, asserting our right to native plants

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Harvesting Wildflower Seeds

Butterfly Milkweed Seed

By harvesting local wildflower seeds from our own yards, we can restore native habitat right here where we live.

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It’s Time To Kill Your Lawn

Luxury house with freshly mown grass lawn. Home exterior.

Lawns are expensive, costly to the environment, to our health and well being.

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The Suburban Lawn Must Die

"A perfect neighborhood. Luxury houses with nice landscaping" says the marketeer's caption

We need yards, not lawns. We need to learn what is native and what is not, and go native. Our local animal population is depending on us.

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