Natural Areas Conservancy

02/04/2025

The NAC has decided to retire our page, and instead will be focusing on reaching our audiences on Instagram, Bluesky, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Please join us on these platforms to keep in touch with us!

IG: https://bit.ly/3S2p2hT
Bluesky: https://bit.ly/4hoNXrv
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3xh6ePG
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3WIh7K4

Natural Areas Conservancy | 3,854 followers on LinkedIn. We champion & protect NYC’s 20k acres of forests and wetlands to create a sustainable future here and across the nation. | The Natural Areas Conservancy strives to deepen the connection between people and nature in NYC by increasing acce...

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from the NAC! We're excited for another year of tree hugging and advocating for our city's beautiful, vital, and precious natural areas.

Are you with us? If you'd happily join Helen, Emily, Kate, and Naiyiri on the subway to to your nearest natural area, give us a 💚 in the comments.

12/19/2024

💚☃️ Wishing you a Happy Holidays from the Natural Areas Conservancy! 💚☃️

12/17/2024

Last week, the NAC staff celebrated the winter season together in Bryant Park! Nothing like hot apple cider and the magic of the winter village to get us all in the holiday spirit.

We're so proud of this team who have worked tirelessly this year to champion and protect natural areas across NYC. 💚

12/05/2024

✨Mystery Plants Part 2🌿

Botany experts, Sarah and Lydia are back investigating some decade old plant samples! Watch them compare groups of similar species and their distinguishing traits. You'll walk away a certified plant pundit who can tell the difference between Wild bergamot vs. American ground nut and Cinnamon fern vs. Lady fern. 🕵️

For the Ecological Assessment 2.0, the forest ecology team must fill in the blanks on plant pressings collected back in 2014. Once this process is complete, more accurate data comparison can take place.

Learn more about EA 2.0: https://bit.ly/3yoo35W

12/03/2024

8.5 million New Yorkers wouldn’t be able to access nature without trails. One of our core missions at the NAC is to increase our city’s connection to nature. Every year, we host a week-long Trails Technique Training for local practitioners to improve their trail technical skills which includes everything from installing puncheon and check steps to improving tread and pruning vegetation. And throughout the year we provide training to 120 volunteer trail maintainers in our Super Steward program, who inspire us with their dedication to NYC natural areas.

With extreme budget cuts to Parks, it’s imperative that the NAC continues our trail maintenance training and increase the number of people on the ground with this knowledge.

Help us ensure natural areas are available to all. Make your gift: https://bit.ly/49ilAYx

11/29/2024

Recent wildfires across our city's parks and natural areas have caused many of us concern, and left New Yorkers with questions regarding the city's response to climate challenges.

Join the City Parks Foundation , for a webinar panel that will address the immediate impact of these fires, and strategic plans for the future. Register: https://bit.ly/3B0zVwf

11/28/2024

🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from the Natural Areas Conservancy! 🍁

We're incredibly thankful for our community—all of the supporters, volunteers, donors, and colleagues who stand with us in our mission to champion natural areas in NYC!

You still have 24 hours to enter our ✨Gratitude Giveaway✨! Head over to our Instagram to enter for a chance to win a bundle of exclusive swag and a private nature tour: https://bit.ly/493c0ZJ

11/21/2024

An incredible week so far at the Partners in Community Forestry conference in Chicago!

We’ve met so many knowledgeable forestry practitioners from across the country and linked up with members from our Network! Appreciate the opportunity to learn from diverse organizations and researchers, and to share our work on forest management on a national scale.

Thank you @[urn:li:organization:112192] for bringing together such an engaging group!

Learn more about FiC: https://bit.ly/3OUaMan

11/20/2024

What exactly does wetlands mitigation mean? When infrastructure projects unavoidably impact wetlands, mitigation is a way of offsetting the impact through wetland creation, restoration, and enhancement—with a goal of no-net wetland loss.

In New York City, this process has its unique challenges due to policy, resource, and physical constraints. In our recently published report, author Emily Walker interviewed experts in the field to identify specific pain points in the mitigation process—and potential solutions. Click through the photos below for an overview of our findings and read the full report here: https://bit.ly/3CdvwXa

11/18/2024

Giveaway alert! We want to thank our supporters, volunteers, donors, and colleagues for an incredible 2024. We couldn’t do our work of championing and protecting natural areas without a strong and passionate community behind us. Thank you! 💚

You can enter to win a bundle of new NAC branded swag, and a private tour for you and 2 friends in an NYC natural area. Enter the contest on Instagram: https://bit.ly/493c0ZJ

Contest closes Friday, Nov 29, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET. Good luck!

11/14/2024

We're hiring an Executive Assistant!

This role will support NAC’s Executive Director and executive team to maximize their impact and will provide ongoing administrative support and office management to the passionate, committed, and driven staff of the NAC.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until December 12, 2024. Apply today: bit.ly/NAC-jobs