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Whatever your expertise, you'll find an environment that encourages discovery, teamwork and professional development.

You can contribute to conservation in a variety of fields including Science, Stewardship, Marketing, Education, Finance, Operations and much more. Click here to check out career openings at the Albany Pine Bush.

Community Science

Join our community of local scientists and help us collect data!

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is looking to engage people in science work at the preserve, both in helping to collect data and in getting a detailed look at what we do and why. Our Community Science Program seeks to collect data that can contribute to our scientific understanding of the ecology and management of the Preserve while offering meaningful engagement opportunities to our constituency.

Community Science opportunities are offered as the need arises. The schedule for both Community Science programs and our science lecture series can be found on our calendar.

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The Pine Bush is one of many extraordinary and rare places around the world. You can learn about, enjoy and protect plants, animals and their habitats wherever you live. There are simple things that each one of us can do to minimize our impact on the environment and make it healthier. Click here to see what you can do.

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Preserve staff receive support from the Friends for projects that include bird banding equipment and advanced license bird banding training.

A donation to the Friends of the Pine Bush Community shows that you care about and want to help sustain the Friends programs.

Your contribution can fund school bus trips for students, protect land, support interns, expand research capabilities and preserve habitat restoration or support educational programming at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center.

You decide how you want to make a difference by choosing a specific fund.

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Volunteers are working to make the preserve safe and enjoyable for all who visit and live here.

The Pine Bush provides hundreds of volunteers and partners with rewarding opportunities for hands-on conservation work. Click here to check out our volunteer opportunities.

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Pine Bush Alerts

November 20, 2024

Discovery Center Winter Closures

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.

October 16, 2023

Preserve Management: Mowing Treatments

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

November 30, 2022

Preserve Management: Pine Barrens Restoration

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.

Click here if you need a mobile friendly version of our trailmap.

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

October 12, 2020

Hunting, Fishing & Trapping

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

April 03, 2019

Tick Awareness

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.

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