It Takes A Whole Lot of Naturalists To Protect Long Island's Pristine Beauty

Upcoming Conference - Dec 6 - promises to be noteworthy event for local naturalists.
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Nov. 22, 2013 - PRLog -- It's a revival. It's a happening. Many of us cut our teeth on infamous naturalists (Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, Ansel Adams, and Rachel Carlson). These rugged individualists loved the outdoors and ambitiously fought for its protection and conservation. On Dec 6, you can be in the same room with over 200 "rock star" naturalists - - if Brian Greene (physicist), can be a "rock star," why not?

According to the Long Island Nature web page, "the conference is open to the general public and promises to be the largest regional forum for researchers, natural resource managers, students, and naturalists to present and exchange current information on the varied aspects of applied field biology and natural history of Long Island."

This 2nd Long Island Natural History Conference is set for Friday, December 6 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, with many leading Long Island Naturalists attending.  Some of the lectures will include:

Coastal Response to Hurricane Sandy at Fire Island, NY - Cheryl Hapke, USGS
Status of the Red Knot and Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow - Steve Papa, USFWS
The Moths of Long Island -  Hugh McGuinness
The Land of Oz: Spiders and Chiggers and Ticks, Oh My! - Scott Campbell, SCDHS
Carnivorous Plants of Long Island -  Matthew Michael Kaelin
A Day in the Life of the Carmans River - Melissa Griffiths Parrott, Central Pine Barrens Com.

Recently formed as a 501©(3) nonprofit, "Long Island Nature was established in 2012 to support education and research about the natural history of Long Island."  I've known two of its founders for more than 25 years. John Turner and Mike Bottini are local naturalists and experts in the field, both dedicated to the preservation and conservation of Long Island's natural resources.

I dug around some of Ray's photograph collection and found these two photographs of John Turner.  He was, along with John Cryan, one of the first ones to introduce both of us to the pristine beauty of the Pine Barrens.

You can view these pictures at the following link:

http://qualityparks.blogspot.com/2013/11/it-takes-whole-l...

It takes a whole lot of naturalists to protect Long Island's pristine beauty, and you can become one of them too.

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Mindy Block is the founder and president of Quality Parks, a federally registered, 501(c)(3) charity since 2000. She is currently running the Quality Parks Master Naturalist  certification program (45 hours of course Work, 20 hours of guided relevant service, and meaningful homework). For more information about this rolling calendar program, contact Mindy Block at 631-473-6760, or online at: www.qualityparks.org . The program is dedicated to Raymond P. Corwin, who was influential in protecting Suffolk County’s open spaces as the first Executive Director of the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission.

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