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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

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Monitoring - Karner blue recovery efforts

Poster Presentation - Karner blue recovery efforts

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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.

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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

Hunting, Fishing & Trapping

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

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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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