Congratulations to the Town of Canaan for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant. Funding will support the planting of native wildflowers and trees and removal of the invasive water chestnut.

Community members teamed up to support ecological restoration on Kite’s Nest campus. Volunteers learned about compost care, helped with the “lasagna layering” method for soil building, and cleaned up the site. Kite’s Nest was a recipient of PCA’s 2023 Ecological Restoration Grants program.

Congratulations to New Paltz Middle School for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration grant for their pollinator project. The grant will fund construction of three types of native gardens to improve habitat and augment outdoor curriculum, in partnership with the Wallkill Valley Land Trust Pollinator Pathway.

Congratulations to the Philmont Public Library for receiving a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant for their “Philmont Pollinator Pathway” project. This grant will provide pollinator habitat along a public-private connectivity corridor and will include public engagement programs.

The Gallatin CAC hosted an Earth Day event to install a low-cost, innovatively designed deer exclosure to protect a portion of the woods from continued overbrowsing. Fence construction was supported by a 2023 PCA Ecological Restoration Grant.

With the help of a 2023 Ecological Restoration Grant from PCA, the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy is combating shoreline threats by using an innovative combination of techniques for native plant restoration and shoreline stabilization.

The City of Hudson’s Conservation Advisory Council (CAC) and Hudson Development Corporation (HDC) received an ecological restoration grant for urban forestry during PCA’s 2023 grant round.