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Karner Blue Recovery Efforts Research

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Introduction to the researcher - Steve

Steven Campbell, Conservation Biologist

Hi! I'm Steve.
As the Conservation Biologist, I am primarily responsible for designing studies to understand the effects of management on the preserve’s plant and animal communities, managing and analyzing the data collected, and documenting the results as reports and peer-reviewed scientific papers. I also help with the fieldwork of many of our ongoing bird studies (e.g., point counts and bird banding).

The videos in each section below are about our Karner blue recovery efforts research. At the end you will see a poster with all of this information. We use the poster as a succinct, visual way to represent the work.

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Habitat Restoration - Karner blue recovery efforts

Accelerated Colonization - Karner blue recovery efforts

Monitoring - Karner blue recovery efforts

Poster Presentation - Karner blue recovery efforts

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August 30, 2024

Trail Closures

Starting on Tuesday September 3 at 6 AM, the parking areas at four trailheads will be temporarily CLOSED to allow for preserve visitor parking area paving. Locations to temporarily close are trailheads #2 Rapp Barrens, #7 Madison Avenue Pinelands, #9 Kings Hwy Barrens and #12 Truax Trail Barrens.

Parking at these four trailheads will remain closed until Monday, September 16 to allow the pavement and parking space paint to cure. Please visit any of our other eight preserve trailheads during this time.

February 07, 2024

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November 30, 2022

Preserve Management: Pine Barrens Restoration

The Kings Highway Barrens, at trailhead #9, is temporarily CLOSED while habitat restoration work is being completed. This site was cleared of invasive black locust trees in early 2024. Next the site will be stumped, graded and then planted with native pine barrens plants. This is the first phase of restoring these 38 acres back to a pine barrens. Please view the interactive trail map to see the tree removal locations as well as other preserve areas you can visit during this time.

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

October 12, 2020

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April 03, 2019

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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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OUR WORK

Karner Blue Recovery Efforts Research

Click on each section below to learn about this research project.

Introduction to the researcher - Steve

Introduction to the researcher - Steve

What is the Albany Pine Bush?

What is the Albany Pine Bush?

Karner blue

Karner blue

Habitat Restoration - Karner blue recovery efforts

Habitat Restoration - Karner blue recovery efforts

Accelerated Colonization - Karner blue recovery efforts

Accelerated Colonization - Karner blue recovery efforts

Monitoring - Karner blue recovery efforts

Monitoring - Karner blue recovery efforts

Poster Presentation - Karner blue recovery efforts

Poster Presentation - Karner blue recovery efforts

Join our scientific community!

Interested in science?

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