08.04.2025 Featured Story Trees of Shelter Island, trees for our lives I first came to Shelter Island as a four-month-old in the summer of 1948 and spent many years here with my family as a summer person. Our house was...
08.14.2024 Featured Story New Trees planted on Shelter Island Last month, Shelter Island Friends of Trees (FoT) planted 11 new roadside trees. Two Kousa dogwoods, in honor of Chris Lewis and Arbor Day Chair Carol Russell, were planted...
06.09.2023 Featured Story Shelter Island Greener Gardens: Raising Butterflies Last week, while having lunch outdoors, I spotted a spring azure, a small butterfly with lovely violet wings. Its welcome appearance marks the start of a long season of...
04.19.2023 Featured Story Greener Gardens: Create a home for bees and birds I first got the plant bug when I was in college. In an out-of-nowhere impulse, I bought a pack of seeds, planted and watered them and … nothing happened....
01.27.2023 Featured Story Fighting destructive tree disease First discovered in Ohio in 2012, Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) has since spread to numerous northeastern states. BLD appeared in Suffolk County in 2019, and it now affects American...
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