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I Love My Park Day, held the first Saturday in May, attracts thousands of volunteers from across the state to participate in cleanup, improvement, and beautification events at New York State parks and historic sites. Join us to celebrate New York's park system by cleaning up park lands and beaches, planting trees and gardens, restoring trail and wildlife habitat, removing invasive species, and working on various site improvement projects.
Volunteer Project #1: Pollinator Garden Prep - Use your green thumbs to prepare Fire Island National Seashore's Pollinator Garden for the growing season. This native plant garden is a registered monarch way station and needs your help to keep it growing.
Please bring: Garden gloves, water, snack. We will provide garden tools, but you are welcome to bring your own. Bring a light jacket and wear long pants and closed shoes and socks.
Meeting Location: Patchogue Watch Hill Ferry Terminal
Ages: Appropriate for 13 and up
Volunteer Project #2: Pick it Up Coastal Cleanup at the Wilderness Visitor Center - Join Fire Island National Seashore and the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation to help clear Fire Island's ocean shore of unsightly and harmful marine debris. For more inf
Please bring: Garden gloves, water, snack. We will provide garden tools, but you are welcome to bring your own. Bring a light jacket and wear long pants and closed shoes and socks.
Meeting Location: Wilderness Visitor Center - Park at Smith Point County Park.
Ages: All ages welcome
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