Open Space Institute eNews
2023 e-News
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November 2023: Protecting land, creating parks, and assessing community needs
Updates about a new urban park in North Charleston, SC; surveying community needs Kingston, NY; OSI’s latest Shawangunk Ridge acquisitions; 700 acres for carbon storage in Maine; and more.
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October 2023: Conservation achievements from Maine to South Carolina
Celebrating the opening of the nation's newest wildlife refuge in Tennessee; expanding access to the Shawangunk Ridge in the Hudson Valley; supporting the protection of land for wildlife integrating traditional Indigenous land use; and more.
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September 2023: Land for climate, clean water, and more.
Explore OSI's Growing Greenways Plan in a new, multimedia Story Map. Plus, celebrating the rematriation of ancestral lands in NJ to indigenous ownership; $450,000 in grant funds to land trusts across the U.S.; improvements at Fahnestock, and more.
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August 2023: An Action-Packed August at the Open Space Institute
OSI completes work on Minnewaska's High Point Carriage Road; launching work on the O&W Rail Trail in NY's Ulster and Orange Counties; celebrating the expansion of Wee Tee State Forest in South Carolina; newly conserved lands in TN, NH, and more.
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July 2023: July is Jumping at OSI
A new report details OSI's commitment to equity in our work to make land more accessible and inviting for everyone; a new partnership to protect lands significant to the Catawba Nation in SC; land for clean water in NY and NJ; and more.