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The George & Barbara Bush Foundation and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum are excited to announce the opening of the Marine One/4141 Locomotive Pavilion on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station.
The Pavilion is scheduled to open to the public on June 13, 2024. For more information about 41@100: A Celebration of George H.W. Bush and the events surrounding his 100th birthday, please visit georgeandbarbarabush.org/41at100
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham and New York Times bestselling author Jean Becker as they launch their newest books. This event is being held in conjunction with 41@100: A Celebration of George H.W. Bush.
The public is invited to the Grand Opening of the Marine One/4141 Locomotive Pavilion and a concert featuring country music legends Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett. All events are free, but registration is required.
WELCOME TO THE ALBANY PINE BUSH PRESERVE. Located between the majestic Catskill and Adirondack mountains, this 3,350 acre preserve offers visitors an experience rich in geological, natural and cultural history. Known for its gently rolling sand-dunes, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve is home to a unique variety of rare plants and animals, including the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly. Visitors young and old are invited to venture into the preserve or explore the Discovery Center where learning comes naturally through hands-on activities.
The preserve contains nearly 20 miles of official marked, multiple-use trails. Most trails are considered easy to moderate and vary from wide open sandy trails to narrow, grassy woodland passages. The topography is generally flat with gradual slopes up and down the natural sand dunes.
In the spring, summer and fall the Pine Bush can be very hot and dry. Remember to bring your drinking water and sunscreen. In the winter trails can get icy. Snowshoes or cramp-ons are a good idea at these times.
Become part of a community of friends that protect the unique habitat at the Albany Pine Bush. Friends of the Pine Bush Community help people get out to enjoy nature and seize opportunities to participate in local learning and scientific research.
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Starting in early March 2024, 18 acres of invasive and non-native black locust trees will be removed from a site located west of New Karner Road and just south of Pinehurst Blvd. The tree removal is the first step in restoring this site back to the pine barrens it once was. After tree removal the site will be planted with native pine barrens plants. During this time this area is temporarily CLOSED to all public use.
Over the past twenty-four years the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission has been restoring wildlife habitat by selectively removing overabundant, non-native, and/or crowded trees in the preserve. The purpose of tree removal is to re-establish the globally-rare pine barrens. Work will begin during the winter of 2024 between Pinehurst Blvd and Charles Blvd west of Route 155 (New Karner Road) in Albany as shown on the attached map.
Tree removal will begin in early 2024 on 18 acres of preserve land on the west side of new Karner Road just south of Pinehurst Blvd. In early spring 2024 this site will have the tree stumps removed and will then be graded and planted with native pine bush plants.
Successful wildlife habitat management in some areas of the preserve initially requires the selective removal of invasive trees like black locust. Pitch pine and oak trees will not be removed. Heavy logging equipment is used to remove the invasive trees and stumps and the site is then graded in preparation for planting. In the spring of 2024 the site will be planted with a variety of native wildflowers and prairie grasses. Pine barrens shrubs and trees, as needed, will also eventually be added to the site. In three to five years these areas will begin to exhibit characteristics of high quality pine barrens that typify the Pine Bush.
If you have any questions about this wildlife habitat restoration activity, please contact me at (518) 690-2773 or jhe...@albanypinebush.org. You can also visit www.AlbanyPineBush.org. for more information on habitat restoration dates, sites and trail closures.
We cannot provide a specific schedule for prescribed fires in a given area due to the unpredictability of weather and fuel conditions. If you would like to be notified the morning of a prescribed fire, please subscribe below.
For more information about prescribed fire please visit www.AlbanyPineBush.org/prescribedfire.
On that page you will see links to sign up for notification alerts or leave feedback at the bottom of the page. People can sign up to get email notifications through either of these links.
The Kings Highway Barrens, at trailhead #9, is temporarily CLOSED while habitat restoration work is being completed. This site was cleared of invasive black locust trees in early 2024. Next the site will be stumped, graded and then planted with native pine barrens plants. This is the first phase of restoring these 38 acres back to a pine barrens. Please view the interactive trail map to see the tree removal locations as well as other preserve areas you can visit during this time.
Click here if you need a mobile friendly version of our trailmap.
Please contact Stewardship Director, Joel Hecht with any questions or concerns. 518-456-0655 or jhe...@albanypinebush.org
Continuing a quarter-mile the other way past the car and further sweeping of sedges along the way back to the car was fruitless, and the lateness of the hour told me my insect collecting activities for the day had finally come to an end. Neverthess, I was content with series of several nice beetle species in my bottles, including a few true Florida specialities, and made my way back home.
The drive from Alabaster Caverns to Gloss Mountain takes about an hour, so we arrived right at noon. After a bit of lunch, we started out on top of the mesa to check the jug traps. As at Alabaster caverns, they were overwhelmed with Euphoria sepulchralis and lower numbers of Cotinus nitidus, but I did see a few elaphidiine longhorned beetles and elaterid click beetles. Unfortunately the third jug trap (EtOH-only) was broken and with no retrievable trap contents. Trap contents from jug traps A (SRW) and B (SRW/EtOH) were bagged for counting at a later date. The white bottle trap also had perhaps more than 100 E. sepulchralis (no vouchers) plus 1 Meloidae (and 1 wasp, 1 bee for Mike). There was lots of different flowers in bloom, giving me hope that insects, especially beetles, might be found on them. Some, like Polanisia dodecandra (redwhisker clammyweed) are not normally associated with beetles (at least not to my knowledge), but others such as camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris), snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), and any number of Solidago spp. (goldenrods) are.
For my part, other than the seclusion and exercise, I focused on continuing to learn my winter grasses. Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) were common in the open areas near the parking lot (none of which I saw on my previous hike at LaBarque Creek Natural Area), while river oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) was seen within the forest, especially in the lower, moister sections of the trail. Also, unlike that previous hike, I saw only a few plants of broomsedge bluestem (Andropogon virginicus) and no little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) at all.
Unlike the lower areas, the upland stretches of trail were nearly devoid of grasses, or any ground layer for that matter other than a few lowbush blueberries (Vaccinium pallidum), but what they lacked in understory floral diversity they more than made up for in spectacular setting-sun vistas. I had to really hoof it during the last couple of miles to ensure that I reached the car before it got too dark, but it felt good to finish the hike with a nice effort. Now, time to jet out a key grasses and think about where I want to hike in the next couple of days.
I was also very happy to see that the Department of Conservation has begun renovating the small sandstone glade remnants on the west side of the loop by cutting out much of the eastern red-cedar that has invaded the remnants over the past several decades.
It will be interesting to watch the vegetational succession that is sure to take place in them over the next decade or so as grasses like little bluestem and eastern broomsedge colonize the now exposed lichen ground layer that had developed beneath the junipers. It will also be an interesting place to look for insects next spring, as wood boring beetles are sure to be attracted to all the newly-available freshly-dead wood.
Like the jug traps yesterday, the Lindgren funnel trap was overwhelmed by mostly click beetles but did also contain Eburia haldemani/quadrigeminata and Plinthocoelium suaveolens in the mix. The trap contents were bagged unsorted for counting later.
Right next to the patch of sunflowers i was working, I saw (and caught) a male Neotibicen auriferus singing in Prosopis glandulosa (honey mesquite. I would end up with about a half dozen and record one male singing over the next few hours.
The white bottle trap had a single Acmaeodera sp. and a few other miscellaneous beetles (and 5 bees for Mike), and, as at Alabaster Caverns yesterday, both the SRW and SRW/EtOH traps (the EtOH trap was removed last time) were overwhelmed with Elateridae and Cotinus nitidus beetles and were thus bagged for counting later. However, once again I did see a fair number of Plinthocoelium suaveolens, Eburia haldemani/quadrigeminata, and elaphidiines in the mix. Up on top of the mesa, the jug traps were again overwhelmed and the catch bagged for later counting, and the white bottle trap had no Acmaeodera but several miscellaneous other beetles and bees.
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