Quality Parks Kicks Off Month Long, August 2009, Wild Turkey Sighting Survey
Summer's a great time for enjoying Long Island's natural resources. Why not also support its conservation?
Port Jefferson, NY, July 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Summer's a great time for enjoying Long Island's natural resources. Why not also support its conservation? During the month of August, Quality Parks will be supporting the NYSDEC Summer Wild Turkey Sighting Survey and will make the data collected available on their web site. Though this is a statewide survey, Quality Parks our efforts will be for Long Island.
"Our conservation concern is that wild turkeys may not make it to western Long Island. But if they have, no one's talking," says Mindy Block, Quality Parks founder, president, and executive producer of stories that green our world. "When I stopped by a site in Mount Sinai, a garden fence was being used not so much to keep out the deer but to keep out wild turkey!" In walking through an isolated nature preserve further up the island, she speculates, "Spotting wild turkey, or imagining oneself to be part of the team that reintroduces wild turkey, if no turkey are to be found, that would be great!"
Quality Parks Ranger volunteers will be collecting data and contacting local groups and nearby park agencies to find out where wild turkey have been spotted. Contributing to this survey offers interested Long Islanders a hands on opportunity to understand an important principle of conservation biology: island biogeography. With so much commercial and residential development isolating parklands, it's harder for some animals to maintain their populations within these restricted boundaries. And, it is also more difficult for some animals to repopulate isolated parklands that have no greenways between them. Wild turkeys were reintroduced to parts of eastern Long Island in the early nineties, after being over hunted. Are they making their way to parks in in more developed area? Join Quality Parks volunteer effort to find out.
For more information, contact Mindy Block at: 631-473-6760; Quality Parks, P.O. Box 143, Port Jefferson, NY. 11777-0143; mblock@qualityparks.org; or visit us on the web at: www.qualityparks.org.
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"Our conservation concern is that wild turkeys may not make it to western Long Island. But if they have, no one's talking," says Mindy Block, Quality Parks founder, president, and executive producer of stories that green our world. "When I stopped by a site in Mount Sinai, a garden fence was being used not so much to keep out the deer but to keep out wild turkey!" In walking through an isolated nature preserve further up the island, she speculates, "Spotting wild turkey, or imagining oneself to be part of the team that reintroduces wild turkey, if no turkey are to be found, that would be great!"
Quality Parks Ranger volunteers will be collecting data and contacting local groups and nearby park agencies to find out where wild turkey have been spotted. Contributing to this survey offers interested Long Islanders a hands on opportunity to understand an important principle of conservation biology: island biogeography. With so much commercial and residential development isolating parklands, it's harder for some animals to maintain their populations within these restricted boundaries. And, it is also more difficult for some animals to repopulate isolated parklands that have no greenways between them. Wild turkeys were reintroduced to parts of eastern Long Island in the early nineties, after being over hunted. Are they making their way to parks in in more developed area? Join Quality Parks volunteer effort to find out.
For more information, contact Mindy Block at: 631-473-6760; Quality Parks, P.O. Box 143, Port Jefferson, NY. 11777-0143; mblock@qualityparks.org; or visit us on the web at: www.qualityparks.org.
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