Ecological Restoration’s Dave Hail operates an excavatoralong Cayuga Creek, in the Town of Niagara. This project will reduce flooding in the area.
One environmental project involving Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper and another the Western New York Land Conservancy are two examples of the progress this area is making in ensuring the future of Western New York. Both will yield long-lasting dividends.
The success of the Western New York Wildway was possible because of the collaboration between the two groups. This long-term project of Land Conservancy is a long-term one. According to News, the $2 million grant will help connect and preserve forests in the region and link them with the more that 46,000 acres state-owned land in the County. Nancy Smith, Conservancy executive director, said it is the beginning of an ongoing project that will last for decades. She said that it needs partners to succeed. One of these partners is the Waterkeeper.
The grant was awarded by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to the Conservancy to help protect the Black Creek-Angelica Creek watershed. It will also allow the Conservancy to work with property owners. The grant protects forests that are vital to public drinking water sources.
The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation awarded the Conservancy a $690,000. grant to collect native plant seeds from the region, grow them and deliver them to Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park. It is a way of increasing the local native plant populations. The Conservancy, along with other land trusts is also working to address issues of environmental equity, in particular, within our Indigenous community.
