Nature Conservancy

2013

March 7, 2013

Gazette in Content Deal with The Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy
Vineyard Gazette

Two Vineyard institutions, the Vineyard Gazette and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), have announced a new partnership to advance an innovative approach to the Island’s environmental challenges. A new section on the Gazette website (mvgazette.com/nature-conservancy) will introduce Gazette readers to the principles and techniques of TNC’s Vineyard Habitat Network, which pairs TNC know-how with the energy and resources of conservation-minded Islanders.

Launched in 2011, the Habitat Network is free to participants and involves no obligations.

2012

August 16, 2012
nature conservancy

Inviting Nature Into Your Own Backyard

Katie Ruppel
Conservation
Nature Conservancy

Residential developments, historically perceived as a threat to wildlife habitats, are taking on a positive role through a new Nature Conservancy program called the Vineyard Habitat Network.

Residences that can actually foster healthy habitats? It’s not only possible, it’s being done already, habitat officials say.

June 26, 2012
driftwood at cedar tree neck

Island Conservation Leaders Look to Future

Julia Wells
Conservation
Cedar Tree Neck Sanctuary
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation
Wakeman Conservation Center
Nature Conservancy

The place names are familiar and unchanging: Wasque, Cape Pogue and Long Point, Herring Creek Farm, Cedar Tree Neck and Fulling Mill Brook, Waskosim’s Rock and Pecoy Point, to name a few.

But the people who admire, use and could potentially contribute to the thousands of acres of land in conservation on the Vineyard have changed, and Island conservation leaders say this is what frames their biggest challenge today.

2011

August 25, 2011

Stiltgrass Be Walking All Over the Place

Nature Conservancy

Japanese stiltgrass has recently been discovered in the Longview neighborhood of West Tisbury, and the Nature Conservancy needs Islanders’ help in keeping this invasive species under control.

The harmful grass, which was introduced to the U.S. from Asia as a natural packaging material at the beginning of the 19th century, can crowd out native wildflowers, grasses and tree seedlings.

June 30, 2011

Forest Fire Management Includes Controlled Burns

Forest fires
Manuel F Correllus State Forest
Nature Conservancy
Controlled burns

State foresters and Nature Conservancy fire ecology experts will draft a fire management plan for Manuel Correllus State Forest on Martha’s Vineyard, to guide ongoing fire work, thanks to recent funding from the U.S. Forest Service.

The $374,000 also will cover the partnership to restore 925 acres in Massachusetts with prescribed fire over the next year, to manage ecosystems and improve public safety.

2010

March 25, 2010
Barn

When Walls Hold Hard Work and Heartbreak

Geraldine Brooks
Hoft Farm
Nature Conservancy

For more than a hundred years, the barn at Hoft Farm has born witness to the hard work and heartbreak of Vineyard rural life. The large barn, rising three stories high from its substantial fieldstone foundation, marked the ambition and optimism of the Hoft family, who settled on the Island after ocean journey and shipwreck. John Hoft, born in Hamburg, Germany, planted an orchard of apples, pears, peaches and plums.

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