The Vineyard Conservation Society announces the winners of its annual Art of Conservation student competition.
Vineyard Conservation Society
March 30, 2021
The Vineyard Conservation Society holds its annual Island-wide beach clean-up April 17.
June 14, 2021
On June 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. there will be discussion under the trees at Featherstone with the Vineyard Conservation Society.
June 19, 2021
Louisa Hufstader
This month, the Vineyard Conservation Society and Featherstone Center for the Arts are exploring the relationship between artists and the natural world.
2008
February 7, 2008
Conservation Society Walk
Explores Seven Gates Farm
The Vineyard Conservation Society winter walks program, focusing on the Island’s agricultural heritage, will continue on Sunday, Feb. 10, beginning at 1:30 p.m., with a guided walk at the 1,100 acres of protected open space at Seven Gates Farm.
February 7, 2008
Controversy, primarily around land use and land development issues, has been a defining trait of the Vineyard community in recent years. So it is remarkable and gratifying to see signs that the Vineyard is uniting around the common goal of conserving energy, improving efficiency and thinking about the future.
January 10, 2008
The Vineyard Conservation Society Winter Walks Program will feature a guided walk at Thimble Farm in Tisbury on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 1:30 pm. Andrew Woodruff, an Island farmer with 25 years’ experience, will lead the walk.
2007
August 2, 2007
The dire forecast for the future of the Vineyard environment, signed onto by the Island's major conservation groups 10 years ago this week, was wrong. Dramatically, happily wrong.
Among other things, the 1997 white paper predicted the Vineyard would be built out within eight years, and that only a little over 25 per cent of Island land would be protected by 2005. History has proven these figures to be way off the mark.
July 16, 2007
Not Too Many Fish in the Sea to Count
By KATE BRANNEN
The Vineyard Conservation Society met Thursday for its annual
meeting and to hear about the Marine Life Census, an ambitious and
inspiring global project that is attempting to catalogue and identify
every life form in the planet's oceans.
The census puts Vineyard conservation efforts into a global context
where scientists around the world are racing to protect marine life.
2005
August 11, 2005
Anniversary: Conservation Is Crux of Mission Across 40 Years
By IAN FEIN
Forty years ago a group of Island residents formed the Vineyard
Conservation Society to fend off a development threat in the
Lobsterville moors of Aquinnah. The group convinced the state to put a
limited access designation on West Basin Road, effectively prohibiting
any future subdivision or development in the area and preserving the
untouched strip of land that runs along the northern edge of Menemsha
Pond today.
