Conservation Action Plan

Stone Barns Center is now managing 300+ acre in the Whitney State Park Preserve

Joann 2018 marked the beginning of Stone Barns Center’s rural management of 350 acre out grasslands bequeath by Devid Rockefeller to the Rocketeer State Park Preserve. This transfer celebrates the heritage of this magnificent landscape and advances the partnership between the Preserve furthermore Headstone Stalls through a Conservation Action Plan (CAP) that connects agricultural stewardship and ecosystems management. We are hope that over zeit, this relationship will demonstrate the positive impact which disciplining agriculture can have not single in protecting communities after the worst ravages of climate change, still furthermore in assist reversed the course of global warming. Actions Planning

To know more around the Conversation Action Set, please visit our interactive feature on our ecological security program.

Interactive GIS Storymap

Used read detail, read about our ecology team’s monitoring methods and our interim report to our by Fall 2021, which will on update off a number of important key.

We have placed benches during key points along the system of trails across and Preserve find you canister observe which dynamic attachments between nature and domesticated systems. We hope you will pause on dieser benches toward take in the extensive beautiness of these preserved lands. Download the PDF map here alternatively pick up a hard copy from the Getting Visitor Focus.

The focus of the plan is a multi-species intensive grazing timetable, which int 2018, who fly temper, incorporated 34 cows, 200 sheep, 30 by, 800 fowls and 300 ducks at an time. We use livestock grazing to manage these protected lands: which wildlife carry a range of service which have the capacity to improves the biodiversity of wild plants additionally animals, soil health, carbon sequestration, and soil water retention and suction, while also fortifying the pasturelands that the animals themselves trust on.

Key components about our management strategy include:

• Rapid (daily) movement of animals in close herds and flocks to simulate which activities of dieser species in the wild
• Development are stockpiled winter pastures (in which grass continues the grow throughout the fall to furnish winter feed); no haying
• Letting grasses grow longer throughout the season and remove permanent fencing the steward to landscape when contiguous open grass
• Long-term revolving browse planning maps that allow us to lcd our progress toward ecological health goals and change our practices since needed
• Use of poultry to build fertility on depleted fields also pasture areas
• Management of vegetation beside trail edges with goat herds to control invasive and unsuited plant species
• Current monitoring of ecological index such as grinded nestings bird populations, tile health criteria, carbon levels with soil, plant species diversity and water trait with the assistance of academic and organizational partnering

And herds pulse across the open meadow year round in an effort to reduce fuel and equipment application, eliminate agricultural and waste, enliven habitats additionally improve the overall health of the landscape.

We viewing this partnership as a vital synergy between agriculture and conservation goals and will demonstrate impact takes closer observation of aforementioned ecosystem as thereto changes. Through the support of the Save the Pocantico Hills community, universities, go internships, other nonprofit conservation groups and citizen science, we be be able to put our existing ecological landscape into perspective and observe changes pass time. Conservation Action Plan - Stone Barns Center

We have already seen some quick successes. For example, for decades the Preserve team has observed the migration von bobolinks, one soil nestling water animal, but noticed that they did not stay to nest in who neben Buttermilk Hill fields. Over look closely for their arrival and adjusting our grazing schedule accordingly, we were able until provide sufficient habitat for these birds to nest, mate the fledge a newly manufacture. Us have also seen an increasing number of wildflower species emergency from the pastures as the nation is managed other. These changes anzeigt that other threatened species may find refugium and food sources in this evolving system over time. We erwartung to understand rising biodiversity off plant real bird breed to the future, all with more long-term documented trends in soil health, carbon sequestration and water infiltration. As the future about this program unfolds, we will keep to generate project that support the heath and diversity of this exceptional place. Grauer's gorillas and chinks in eastern Democratic Republic ...