Trends: When Rare Becomes Common
Back in June 1975, our premier Island Naturalist Ed Horning published a small pamphlet: Fishers Island Birds. Its intention was to document the distribution and occurrence of bird species between […]
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Adopt-A-Beach
I have been thinking a lot about Stewardship and just what principles it takes to effectively oversee and protect the Island we all cherish and value-enough to “preserve, enrich, and […]
Annual Audubon Bird Count
With Twelve Days of Christmas nearing and “a partridge in a pear tree” somewhere…. I remind myself to help promote the 114th Annual Christmas Bird Count supported here on Island […]
President’s Message: 2013
The Fishers Island Conservancy has had another wonderfully busy year. The Conservancy increased funding for our existing programs and took on new responsibilities with dedicated vigor, all the while maintaining […]
River Otter Survey Report
In April, we wrote about Mike Bottini’s river otter survey on fishers Island. A Conservancy grant funded the survey of river otters on Fishers Island, which included FI School 9th […]
Meet the Island Sentinels!
The Conservancy welcomes our first Island Sentinels, the brother-sister team of Rob and Olivia Backhaus. Rob graduated this year from the Fishers Island School and is headed to college this […]
New Conservancy Grants Fund Otter Research, Naturalist Work, Student Program and Native Trees
The FI Conservancy Board voted March 9 to fund work under four new grants. The first grant will fund planting of native trees in the FI Cemeteries. Another grant will […]
President’s Message: 2012
2012 has been a fantastic year for the Fishers Island Conservancy. The Conservancy has continued to fund and expand our existing programs while taking on several bold new initiatives thus […]
