ALBANY – The state is going to fund several hundreds of thousands to reduce the native impacts of invasive species through control or removal activities, research, and spread prevention.
The grants are part of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Invasive Species Grant Program and are funded through the Environmental Protection Fund.
Projects funded in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region include:
- Groundwork Hudson Valley: $100,000 for Yonkers Greenway Rapid Response Initiatives.
- Historic Hudson Valley: $100,000 for management of porcelain-berry, Japanese stillgrass, and common reed at Philipsburg Manor.
- Town of Rye: $100,000 for invasive species rapid response and control.
- Westchester Parks Foundation: $58,109 for Tibbetts Brook Park lake management plan.
- Teatown Lake Reservation, Inc.: $53,050 for monitoring and control of aquatic invasive species in Teatown’s lakes.
- Village of Sleepy Hollow: $36,818 for DeVries Park invasive rapid response program.
- Town of Fallsburg: $15,000 for Pleasure Lake Management plan.
- New York New Jersey Trail Conference: $100,000 for lower Hudson early detection and rapid response detection dog team.
- Research Foundation of CUNY obo CUNY Advanced Science Research Center: $100,000 for mapping spatiotemporal patterns in invasive tree, insect, and pathogen occurrences in lower Hudson Valley and New York City.
- Orange County Parks and Recreation: $20,000 for Lake Management Plan a Algonquin Park
- Catskill Center for Conservation and Development: $63,297 for 2019 Catskill Invasive plant rapid response and control.
