Recipient Organization
STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK
(N/A)
SYRACUSE,NY 13210
Performing Department
Natural Heritage Program
Non Technical Summary
We believe that our ecological community and rare plant surveys of the Greentree Foundation property described below will further confirm its biodiversity significance from a county, state, and regional perspective. The site is know for its mature, 400-acre forest and embedded vernal pools, as well as its extensive grasslands, that are protected within an extensive urban landscape. We suspect that the forest is likely the largest remnant patch of oak-tulip tree forest in Nassau County, a forest type that probaby stretched along the northern third of western Long Island prior to development. The vernal pools reported along the ease edge of the forest would be only the second occurrence of that community documented by NYNHP from Long Island, and one of them harbors the rate pale duckweed (Lemna valdiviana -S1). The grasslands on the property support the largest popluation of green milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora - S2 in the State (Lamont and Young 2018).Awarded Start Date: 1/1/2022Sponsor: Greentree Foundation
Animal Health Component
100%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
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