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The Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center will be closed to the public on the following dates:

• Thursday November 28, 2024- All day
• Tuesday December 10, 2024- 11:30-4
• Tuesday December 24, 2024- All day
• Wednesday December 25, 2024- All day
• Wednesday January 1, 2025- All day

Preserve trails will remain open on these dates.

Pine Barrens restoration mowing will be starting in the preserve on Monday, November 4.  Various trails will be temporarily closed with signage for several days at a time.  For your own safety please do not enter these areas while this work is taking place.  Consider visiting a part of the preserve that you have maybe never visited before until the mowing is completed.  Thank you.

If you have any questions or concerns about this management work, please contact Stewardship Director, Joel Hecht at 518-456-0655 or jhecht@albanypinebush.org 

Pine Barrens Habitat restoration is scheduled to begin the week of October 28 on 45 acres in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.  This forested site, at the intersection of Kings Road and Morris Road, will be thinned in late 2024 and then stumped and planted in early 2025.  The objective is to restore this site to the pine barrens it once was.
 

During this time this site is CLOSED to all public use.  For your own safety please visit some of the many other parts of the preserve while this work is underway.

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Please contact Stewardship Director, Joel Hecht with any questions or concerns. 518-456-0655 or jhecht@albanypinebush.org 
 

Hunting, fishing and trapping are recreational activities that are carefully regulated in the preserve and across NYS.

Please be aware that ticks, including deer ticks (also known as black-legged ticks), are present in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve as well as other natural areas in our region.
 

As stated on the NYS Department of Health’s website: Ticks can spread disease. Not all ticks can cause disease and not all bites will make you sick, but as these diseases become more common it's important to learn how to prevent a bite, how to remove a tick and what to do if you think you could have a tick-borne disease. Lyme disease is the most common disease spread by ticks in New York. However, there are other serious diseases spread by ticks including Powassan virus disease, a rare but often serious disease caused by a virus that is spread by the bite of infected ticks and was recently detected in ticks sampled in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. 

For more information on ticks, the diseases they carry, and tick bite prevention please visit: https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/lyme/. 

It is recommended that all visitors to the Albany Pine Bush Preserve wear pants with long socks that can be pulled up over their pant legs and shirts that are tucked into the waistband.