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Museum Land Trust News: Prescribed Burn at Middle Farms is a Success!

By |2025-03-24T16:09:01-04:00March 18th, 2025|Land Trust, News|

Museum Land Trust News: Prescribed Burn at Middle Farms is a Success! By H.L. Ferguson Museum Land Trust Manager Jack Schneider The burn specialists—employed by Star Tree Wildfire, LLC—arrived on the midday ferry on Saturday, March 8, and drove to the firehouse, where they were warmly greeted by members

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From the Museum this Month: Prescribed Burn at Middle Farms

By |2025-03-24T15:41:13-04:00March 17th, 2025|Land Trust, News|

From the Museum this Month: Prescribed Burn at Middle Farms H.L. Ferguson Museum hires Star Tree Wildfire to manage a controlled burn with the participation of members of the Fishers Island Fire Department   March 2025 By H.L. Ferguson Museum Board Member Genie McPherson Trevor Middle

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HLFM welcomes Jessica NeJame as the new Land Trust Stewardship Coordinator

By |2024-12-09T10:29:34-05:00December 9th, 2024|Land Trust, Museum News, News|

Please join us in providing a warm welcome for Jessica!

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Invasive Plant Guided Trail Walk: Clay Point Road Trail

By |2025-03-24T16:53:58-04:00October 22nd, 2024|Land Trust, Museum News, Natural History, News|

Invasive Plant Guided Trail Walk: Clay Point Road Trail On Saturday, October 12, 2024, trail guides Terry McNamara and Diana Fiske led thirty community members on a guided trail walk through Clay Point Road Trail. The newer Land Trust trail had not yet undergone the extensive invasive plant management that other island trails

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Island Pond

By |2024-05-22T15:46:55-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

Island Pond by Jack Schneider Island Pond, and the attached Beach Pond, are classified together ecologically as a “Coastal Salt Pond.” However, this was not always so. Historically, this 52-acre pond complex, the second largest in New York State, was separated from the salty ocean water of Block Island Sound

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Further Investigation of the Island’s Flora and Fauna

By |2024-05-22T08:48:18-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

Further Investigation of the Island’s Flora and Fauna by Elizabeth McCance Last summer, we saw the wrap-up of the two-year survey of the Land Trust’s ecological communities and select taxa by the team of scientists from the New York Natural Heritage Program. Their work yielded volumes of information, including not

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Helping Our Beech Groves Fight Beech Leaf Disease

By |2024-05-22T16:27:13-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

Helping Our Beech Groves Fight Beech Leaf Disease by Jack Schneider Twice last summer, at the end of May and again in early August, Museum volunteers and staff treated our three American beech groves, applying a phosphorous-based solution that has been shown to help trees fight beech leaf disease. The

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Restoring Biodiversity at H. Lee Ferguson, Jr. Wildlife Sanctuary

By |2024-05-22T16:19:11-04:00May 21st, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

Restoring Biodiversity at H. Lee Ferguson, Jr. Wildlife Sanctuary by Jack Schneider Undisturbed natural communities are dynamic, interdependent relationships between plant and animal species that tend towards long-term stability and productivity. Once broken, the restoration of these intricate associations requires planning, work, patience, luck, money, and, above all, leadership fueled

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The First Land Conservation on Fishers Island

By |2024-05-22T16:18:13-04:00May 21st, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

The First Land Conservation on Fishers Island The origin of the Museum’s land conservation efforts can be traced to a meeting on August 2, 1965. On that summer day, Museum President H. Lee Ferguson, Jr., known as “Lee,” proposed to the Board that vacant land be obtained as a sanctuary

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Land Trust Report Spring 2024

By |2024-05-22T16:16:41-04:00May 21st, 2024|Land Trust, Newsletter 2024|

Land Trust Report by Bob Miller Winter left a considerable imprint on some of the Land Trust sanctuaries. Rough seas inundated the shore of Beach Pond during winter storms, tossing logs over and inland of the path. The footbridge at the intersection of Beach Pond and Island Pond was thrown off its foundations and

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ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2023

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F.I. Sketchbook 2005

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF CHARLIE FERGUSON

In the full sweep of Fishers Island’s history, there is no artist more synonymous, more closely associated with Fishers Island than Charles B. “Charlie” Ferguson. The main show features images from two of Charlie's sketchbooks which functioned as illustrated diaries that were filled with daily activities, nature observations, personal notes, and lots of art—drawings, sketches, and watercolors—in various states of completion.

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