Organization
Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy
Also known as: Greenbelt Conservancy, Staten Island Greenbelt
The 501(c)(3) conservancy that stewards the Staten Island Greenbelt — a 2,800-acre contiguous parks system in the borough's interior, including High Rock Park, La Tourette Park, Willowbrook Park, and the Greenbelt Trail network. The largest unbroken stretch of urban forest in NYC, and the institutional layer that has kept it from being subdivided over four decades.
What's happening now
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Why this listing
The Greenbelt is the single most-important ecological substrate on [[annadale|Staten Island]] — and the Conservancy is what keeps it from being optional. Listed as knowledge-care because the work is institutional: trail maintenance, advocacy, education programs, opposing the next subdivision. Forest cover doesn’t survive in a city without an institution committed to it surviving.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[stone-barns-center]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
- Contained by: [[staten-island]]
Sources
- Staten Island Greenbelt Conservancy published materials
- [[brooklyn|New York City]] Department of Parks and Recreation Greenbelt boundaries
Rooted in life.
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
What links here, and how
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Scientific
substrate of
- Downy woodpecker downy woodpeckers excavate cavities in dead and dying trees that subsequently shelter other species — secondary cavity-nester habitat
- Eastern box turtle the Greenbelt's intact deciduous forest is the borough's principal box-turtle habitat
- Eastern coyote Greenbelt forest cover is the borough's principal coyote habitat
- Eastern grey squirrel squirrel-mediated nut caching and forgotten caches are a principal mechanism of oak and hickory regeneration in the Greenbelt
- Redback salamander the Greenbelt's intact forest floor and downed-wood substrate is principal redback habitat
- Spotted salamander the Greenbelt's intact vernal-pool network and surrounding upland forest are required for spotted-salamander persistence
- Spring peeper the Greenbelt's intact vernal-pool network is principal SI peeper breeding habitat
threatens
- White-tailed deer browsing pressure from the deer herd is one of the principal threats to forest understory and tree regeneration in the Greenbelt
Practical
shares approach with
- Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve both hold significant interior parkland on the borough — Greenbelt's oak-hickory forest, Clay Pit Ponds's pine-barrens-style ecosystem
- Conference House Park both hold significant green-space anchors on the borough — Conference House on the south coast, the Greenbelt in the interior
- Delaware Wild Lands both are regional land trusts holding contiguous ecologically-significant acreage across decades through institutional persistence
- Freshkills Park both are SI institutional anchors of large-scale public open-space stewardship — Greenbelt holds existing forest, Freshkills is creating new ecology from a brownfield
- Silver Lake Park both are major North Shore / interior open-space anchors on the borough
contains
- Staten Island the conservancy that stewards 2,800 acres of contiguous forested parkland in the borough's interior
Cultural
shares approach with
- Teatown Lake Reservation comparable nature-preserve-with-education-mission in the SI cluster
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