Tuscarora Environment

06/23/2026

FYI: Our TEP environment office will be accompanying the US EPA today (and the rest of this week) at the former junkyard site across the road from the Picnic Grove on Walmore Rd. Be aware that staff and contractors will be in that area (including the picnic grove parking area) and for everyone to drive carefully.

We are working on an assessment of the site which includes soil borings and installing monitoring wells to better understand everything so we know how to develop a cleanup plan.

06/09/2026

Gov. Hochul calls herself New York’s first mom governor. Rene Rickard-Printup is also a mother and a delegate to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force who has lived her whole life on the homelands of the Tuscarora Nation.

In a powerful new op-ed, she reminds the governor that Mother Earth is the first mother. She writes about aging nuclear facilities that were built without Haudenosaunee consent and run well past their intended lifespan, and about contaminated sites like West Valley that already poison Seneca waters today. As she puts it, these are not risks. They are lived realities.

She also offers a piece of history worth remembering. The suffragists at Seneca Falls in 1848 saw what equality could look like because Haudenosaunee women were already living it. Hochul stands where she stands, in part, because of that example. The least she can do is consult the people whose homelands are at stake and listen to their warnings about nuclear.

Her message to New Yorkers is: No new nuclear in New York. Not on Haudenosaunee homelands. Not on anyone’s.

Read Rene’s full op-ed in The Buffalo News: bit.ly/MomNoNukes

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

UPDATE: The unknown substance has been cleaned up as best could be done! The contractor filled up 4-55 gallon drums for disposal.

ALERT!!!!! An unknown substance was dumped in 4 spots on Garlow Road tonight between 8 pm and 9:30 pm. Please be careful while traveling on Garlow Road, one spot, by Fish Creek, goes out onto the road. All locations have orange cones by them. NYSDEC and a contractor will be out in the morning 5/30/26 to remove the substance. Please do not disturb or handle because of its unknown nature. If you have any information about this dumping, please contact TEP at 716.264.6011.

05/26/2026

Need some help with your family garden? Stop by our TEP office for some FREE seeds and FREE starter plants 🌱😻 First come, first serve for our community during office hours …

05/18/2026

Welcome to the 16th year of the Native Earth Environmental Youth Program! A FREE week-long educational experience for indigenous youth focused on land skills and environmental stewardship, including both traditional ecological knowledge and academic environmental science. Open to Native American students in grades 10-12. Check the link in our bio for more info …

05/01/2026

Looking forward to this year’s Tuscarora Nation Picnic & Field Days - a weekend of fun, family, and community … if you haven’t helped with picnic before this should be your first year to volunteer- and look for ways to give a helping hand …

04/22/2026

April 22, 2026 – Earth Day! Let’s step back and remember, every day is earth day for the Haudenosaunee minded people! It is great to see society acknowledging the earth on April 22, but please remember humans take from the earth every single day of the year. We encourage you to be stewards of the land, give back to the earth just as much as you take all year round. Pick up your trash and litter every day, be good neighbors to all the living creatures by protecting their habitat. Last, only take what you need. Today, we encourage you to think broader instead of singular on this earth day. Let’s make Earth Day every day!

04/21/2026

If you’re looking for a summer internship - come and apply with our Office and be a part of our team … details in our latest Newsletter and our website too - link in our bio …

04/20/2026

Nya:wę for everyone who helped with Roadside Cleanup this past weekend, “many hands lighten the load”- and congrats to all of our raffle winners too …. We appreciate you all …. we filled the dumpster with so many bags of roadside garbage, it’s great to see … and finally nya:wę to everyone who took some trees to plant - we handed out over 65 trees to the community