[nysbirds-l] Queens County Bird Club - Upcoming Meeting - Wed. 06/17 - Helen Forgione - NYC Natural Areas Conservancy.

2015-06-15 Thread Nancy Tognan 
The *Queens County Bird Club Inc.* will be meeting at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362
 >Map of location<  

 

at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.  Free admission.  Refreshments
served.  (Free ice cream - this month only!)

Public transportation users:  Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.

Our speaker will be Helen Forgione of the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy,
discussing ecological assessments of many of our local parks.

 

 The Natural Areas Conservancy  (NAC) works with the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation to protect, restore, and manage expansive
natural areas already within the city's urban park system, including salt
marsh, freshwater wetland, grassland, and forest ecosystems.  Find out more
about the Ecological Assessments NAC completed in NYC over the last two
seasons covering over 10,000 acres, including the following parks in Queens:
Alley Pond Park, Cunningham, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Forest Park,
Idlewild Park, Jamaica Bay Park, Kissena Corridor & Kissena Park, Spring
Creek Park, Udall's Park Preserve.

 Helen Forgione is the Senior Project Manager for Ecological Assessment
for the Natural Areas Conservancy, where she designs a standardized and
adaptive methodology to assess Parks natural areas to inform the protection,
restoration and management strategies. Helen has worked in NYC and
regionally in the NYC Department of Environmental Protection where she
served as Deputy Director for the Office of Ecological Services and for the
Natural Resources Group in NYC Parks Department.  

  Helen has served in the region on boards of the Invasive Plant
Council of New York, The Metropolitan Forest Council and Nature Network.
She holds a MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rutgers University
and a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut.

 

Nancy Tognan 

nancy.tog...@gmail.com   
Vice President: *Queens County Bird Club Inc*. 
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events! 
See our 'Birding Maps & Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots

* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}.  *

 


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[nysbirds-l] Queens County Bird Club - Upcoming Meeting - Wed. 06/17 - Helen Forgione - NYC Natural Areas Conservancy.

2015-06-15 Thread Nancy Tognan 
The *Queens County Bird Club Inc.* will be meeting at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362
http://goo.gl/8cnmjT Map of location  

 

at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.  Free admission.  Refreshments
served.  (Free ice cream - this month only!)

Public transportation users:  Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.

Our speaker will be Helen Forgione of the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy,
discussing ecological assessments of many of our local parks.

 

 The Natural Areas Conservancy  (NAC) works with the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation to protect, restore, and manage expansive
natural areas already within the city's urban park system, including salt
marsh, freshwater wetland, grassland, and forest ecosystems.  Find out more
about the Ecological Assessments NAC completed in NYC over the last two
seasons covering over 10,000 acres, including the following parks in Queens:
Alley Pond Park, Cunningham, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Forest Park,
Idlewild Park, Jamaica Bay Park, Kissena Corridor  Kissena Park, Spring
Creek Park, Udall's Park Preserve.

 Helen Forgione is the Senior Project Manager for Ecological Assessment
for the Natural Areas Conservancy, where she designs a standardized and
adaptive methodology to assess Parks natural areas to inform the protection,
restoration and management strategies. Helen has worked in NYC and
regionally in the NYC Department of Environmental Protection where she
served as Deputy Director for the Office of Ecological Services and for the
Natural Resources Group in NYC Parks Department.  

  Helen has served in the region on boards of the Invasive Plant
Council of New York, The Metropolitan Forest Council and Nature Network.
She holds a MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rutgers University
and a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut.

 

Nancy Tognan 

nancy.tog...@gmail.com mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com  
Vice President: *Queens County Bird Club Inc*. 
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events! 
See our 'Birding Maps  Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots

* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}.  *

 


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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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