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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 …

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 …

This summer, the Fishers Island Conservancy and the Community Center launched a new program – Island Sentinels – to enable students from the F.I. School to learn about wildlife monitoring …

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 …

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 …

Horseshoe Crabs are really spiders-arachnids of the sea. The ancient species has been around for years- something like 400million. A living fossil- even a “live museum” exhibiting  and supporting an …

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 …

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 …